The Undefeated

The Undefeated (, Neskorenyi) is a 2000 Ukrainian film by Oles Yanchuk, a producer and director previously praised by The New York Times and Time magazine for his 1991 film Famine-33. Plot In 1950, long after World War II has ended, a fight continues behind the newly drawn Iron Curtain: as the Ukrainians keep fighting Soviet forces, General Roman Shukhevych (Hryhoriy Hladiy) is forced by brutal circumstances to lead a guerrilla war as part of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA). The film explores Shukhevych, both as a military leader and a family man. In the end, Shukhevych was unable to defeat the Soviet forces and was killed in a targeted assassination by the MGB, but the UPA re-enforce Ukrainian nationalism as an underground force until the end of the Cold War. Cast Hryhoriy Hladiy — Roman Shukhevych Victoria Malektorovych — Halyna Dydyk Serhiy Romaniuk — Soloviov Viktor Stepanov — NKVD major Svitlana Vatamaniuk — Natalka Shukhevych Dmytro Myrhorodskyi — Yosyp Shukhevych Volodymyr Horianskyi — agent Pashkevych Yaroslav Muka — Stepan Bandera and others