A Span of Land

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...

• Andrey SmirnovDirector
• Boris YashinDirector
• Grigori BaklanovWriter

• 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