Chetniks! The Fighting Guerrillas (1943)

Directors

Louis King

Cast

Anna Sten, Martin Kosleck, Philip Dorn, Shepperd Strudwick, Virginia Gilmore

The story

On 6 April 1941, Germany invades Yugoslavia and bombs the Yugoslav capital Belgrade, in conjunction with Italy, Hungary, and Bulgaria. Serb Yugoslav Army colonel Draža Mihailović forms a band of guerrillas known as the Chetniks, who launch a resistance movement against the Axis occupation. Mihailović's forces then engage in an attack on the German and Italian forces, forcing them to employ seven Axis divisions against them.

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