The Turning Point

The film tells the story of those who took part in the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942, which became a turning point in the Great Patriotic War. For five months, the city resisted the Nazi offensive. Surrendering Stalingrad to the enemy would have meant losing the war, but holding on to the city seemed almost impossible.

• Fridrikh ErmlerDirector
• Boris ChirskovWriter
• Gavriil PopovOriginal Music Composer

• Mikhail DerzhavinGeneral Muravyov
• Pyotr AndriyevskyGeneral Vinogradov
• Yuriy TolubeevLavrov
• Andrei AbrikosovGeneral Krivenko
• Aleksandr ZrazhevskyGeneral Panteleyev
• Nikolai KornGeneral-major
• S. RakhmaninChied of front intelligence
• Mark BernesMinutka, driver
• Vladimir MaryevLieutenant Fyodorov
• Pavel VolkovStepan
• Mikhail DevyatkinGeneral Studentsov (uncredited)
• Galina IniutinaLiza Muravyova (uncredited)