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A Span of Land (1964)

A Span of Land (1964)

Drama War
Release Date: 1964, December 21
Directors: Andrey Smirnov, Boris Yashin
Countries: Soviet Union
Production: Mosfilm
Cast: Aleksandr Titov, Viktor Sergachyov, Aleksey Zaytsev, Lev Durov, Aleksandr Zbruev, Mikhail Vorontsov, Yuri Volyntsev, Ivan Kosykh, Anatoli Golik, Leonid Chubarov, Aleksey Bakhar, Viktor Suskin

Overview:

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...

Keywords:

world war ii black and white soviet union