The read
It runs a compact 1h 23m.
Synopsis
The film is about the hot war summer of 1944. A group of several gun crews defends a tiny bridgehead on the right bank of the Dniester. The fates of the main characters: the front-line soldier-battalion commander Babin, the young lieutenant Motovilov, the nurse Rita Tamashova and the rank-and-file gunners, soldiers, among whom are brave people, faint-hearted and scoundrels, unnoticed heroes, are shown in a setting of several hours of peaceful life before another violent attack of the enemy, after which not everyone will survive...
Ratings
IMDb6.9/10
2 audience votes
Key crew
- Andrey SmirnovDirector
- Boris YashinDirector
- Grigori BaklanovWriter
Cast
- Aleksandr ZbruevAleksandr Motovilov
- Elliya SukhanovaRita Tamashova
- Evgeniy UrbanskiyAlexei Babin
- Sergei KurilovBryl
- Mikhail VorontsovAfanasy Makletsov
- Aleksandr TitovShumilin
- Viktor SuskinSayenko
- Anatoli GolikMezentsev
- Leonid ChubarovSinyukov
- Aleksey ZaytsevKokhanyuk
- Lev DurovSergeant
- Yuri VolyntsevCaptain Yatsenko