The read
It runs a compact 1h 28m.
Synopsis
The autumn of 1941. Leningrad is besieged by the Nazis. A new model of tank is being developed at a large defense plant. Built in the shortest possible time combat vehicles are tested directly on battlefields, fighting with fascists in the outskirts of the city. The first feature film about the heroic everyday life of city defenders was shot directly in assembly shops of plants and in the streets of Leningrad when the city was fighting against the enemy
Ratings
IMDb6.3/10
7 audience votes
Key crew
- Mikhail BleimanScreenplay
- Sergei GerasimovScreenplay
- Mikhail KalatozovScreenplay
- Venedict PushkovOriginal Music Composer
- Sergei GerasimovDirector
- Mikhail KalatozovDirector
Cast
- Boris BabochkinRodionov the son, an engineer
- Tamara MakarovaKovaleva
- Nikolai CherkasovRodionov (father)
- Aleksandr KhvyliaPronin, an engineer
- Pyotr AleynikovGrisha, a driver
- Boris BlinovBondarets, a sailor
- Vasilii ZaichikovParty Committee Secretary
- Pyotr KirillovKrasnosheev
- Nikolay DubinskiyVlasov
- N. MitrushenkoSerezhka