The read
It runs a compact 1h 12m.
Synopsis
A teenage soldier in World War I—a simple village boy with a naive youthful dream of fame and medals—throws himself into the unknown and goes blind in the first battle, thus taking on a new job: intercepting enemy planes by listening to the air through huge metal funnels.
Ratings
IMDb6.3/10
28 audience votes
Key crew
- Alexander ZolotukhinDirector
- Alexander ZolotukhinScreenplay
- Sergey RachmaninoffOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Vladimir KorolyovPrivate Aleksei
- Mikhail ButurlovPrivate Nazarka
- Artyom LeshchikNon-Commissioned Officer Makar Petrovich
- Danil TyabinSoldier-Sanitarian
- Sergei GoncharenkoLieutenant
- Filipp DyachkovSoldier-Agitator
- Sergei BratkovCast
- Anton SamusikCast
- Dmitri VolfCast
- Evgeniy SirotinCast
- Yevgeni ChumakCast
- Dmitry BelovCast
Stills
Themes
adolescenceworld war iprisoner of warartilleryblindnessrussian army1910srussian empiresymphony orchestrachemical weapon