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A group of Belarusian anti-Soviet insurgents from the failed Slutsk Defence Action wanders through forests, fleeing the from the surrounding Bolshevik army. To escape captivity or death in battle with a subsequent identification of their bodies and retaliation against their families, the insurgents decide to commit group suicide in a place hidden from the Bolsheviks.

Status: Released
Released Date: 1995-01-01
Runtime: 66 mins
Director: Valery Ponomaryov
Writer: Vasili Bykov, Valery Ponomaryov
Spoken language: беларуская мова, Pусский
Genres: Drama
Original title: On Black Slash-and-Burn Fields
Production Companies: Belarusfilm
Production Countries: Belarus