The Fighting Guerrillas (1943)
Chetniks
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73 min
Subtitled The Fighting Guerillas, Chetniks tells the story of Serbian guerilla fighter General Dragoljub "Draža" Mihailović. Based on the General's own memoirs, the film depicts Mihailovitch (played here by Philip Dorn) as a selfless idealist, leading his resistance troops, known as the Chetniks, on one raid after another against the Germans during WW II.
- Release date
- January 11, 1943
- Country of origin
- United States
Trailer
Cast
- Philip Dorn as General Draja Mihailovitch
- Anna Sten as Lubitca Mihailovitch
- Shepperd Strudwick as Lieutenant. Aleksa Petrovic
- Virginia Gilmore as Natalia
- Martin Kosleck as Colonel Brockner
- Felix Basch as General von Bauer
- Frank Lackteen as Major Danilov
- Patricia Prest as Nada Mihailovitch
- Merrill Rodin as Mirko Mihalovitch
- LeRoy Mason as Captain Sava
Crew
- Louis King · Director
- Jack Andrews · Writer
- Edward E. Paramore Jr. · Writer
- Hugo Friedhofer · Composer
- Glen MacWilliams · Cinematographer
- Alfred Day · Editor