Wounded Game

Wounded Game
Original French film poster
Directed byNikolai Gubenko
Written byNikolai Gubenko
StarringJuozas Budraitis
Aleksandr Kalyagin
Zhanna Bolotova
Rolan Bykov
Bukhuti Zaqariadze
Evgeni Evstigneev
CinematographyAlexander Knyazhinsky
Production
company
Release date
  • 20 June 1977 (1977-06-20)
Running time
93 minutes
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageRussian

Wounded Game (Russian: Подранки, romanized: Podranki, also released on video in the US as The Orphans) is a 1977 Soviet drama film directed by Nikolai Gubenko. It was entered into the 1977 Cannes Film Festival.

The film tells the story of a writer who returns to his wartime childhood city to uncover the fates of his estranged siblings, reliving a harsh past of loss, survival, and fractured family bonds amid the lingering shadows of war.