Summer, 1942. A young Russian communications officer sentenced to death flees execution and becomes brothers-in-arms with his guard against the Germans.
Yura Borisov
Sergey Ogarkov, Lt.
Amir Abdykalov
Dzhurbaev
Maksim Demchenko
Sinyaev
Mariya Karpova
Mariya
Andrey Deryugin
Artem Lebedev
Aleksandr Novik
Igor Khripunov
Khromov
Grigory Kalinin
captain Kovalev
Lidiya Omutnykh
paramedic
Robert Vaab
colonel Voskresensky
Ekaterina Ageeva
Valeri Nenashev
Filipp Savinkov
Igor Brovin
Sergey Vlasov
Rodion Galyuchenko
Larysa Domaskina
Sergey Kaplunov
Konstantin Bykov
Maksim Vazhov
Aleksandr Oblasov
Nikolai Danilov
Nikolay Drozdovsky
Vitas Eyzenakh
Ilya Isaev
Vladimir Tereshchenko
Pavel Shevando
Sergey Barovskiy
Markus Kunze
Ruslan Bankovskiy
Kirill Byrkin
Director
Sergei Popov
Novel
Konstantin Simonov
Novel
Emmanuil Kazakevich
Writer
Karen Shakhnazarov
Writer
Evgeniy Nikishov
September 16, 2018
7
In 1942, a young Lieutenant is serving as a dispatch rider, carrying orders from army headquarters to outlying units. He and other riders pause at a village, which comes under enemy attack. Confused and reeling from the sudden violence, he fails to find a unit under attack, which is surrounded and wiped out. He is arrested, stripped of rank, and quickly sentenced to death by firing squad. He tries to appeal to his superiors, but is thrown into a dugout prison, guarded by a central Asian soldier. He narrowly escapes the firing squad when the Germans overrun the base, and he flees with his very reluctant guard. Wandering from place to place, trying to avoid Germans, the two become comrades-in-arms, when they are recruited to take a village held by the Germans. But duty is duty for his guard, and they continue on their journey to headquarters, encountering many village-level people and places. It's an episodic movie, which leads to an interesting ending in Berlin, years later. 7/10
Status:
Released
Original Language:
Russian
Budget:
$3,800,000.00
Revenue:
$488,569.00