A first episode in the trilogy about the Russian partisan's resistance against the Nazi occupation of Russia during WWII. The film is set in August of 1941, when the Nazi forces invaded and occupied the European part of Russia. Major Mlynsky is in charge of the special group of partisans. His group is absorbing other small groups of Russian soldiers, who managed to survive from the attacks of the overwhelming Nazi forces. The Nazi Armies are advancing to Moscow. Major Mlynsky is organizing the Russian partisan's resistance against the Nazis, behind the enemy lines.
as Ivan Petrovich Mlynsky, Major
as grandfather Matvey Egorovich
as Zina, the nurse
as Seregin, captain
as Ohrim Shmil
as Father Pavel (Pavel Ivanovich Vorobyov)
as Afanasyev, captain
as Nikolai Sergeevich, commander of a partisan detachment
as Vakulenchuk, midshipman
as Hasan Alievich Aliyev, Commissioner
as Petr Sergeevich Ivanov
as Simon Bondarenko
as Natalia Bondarenko, wife of Semyon, radio operator
as Petrenko, lieutenant
as Ignat Osyka
as Claudia Gerasimovna, chairman of the collective farm
as Zakhar Petrovich
as Mishka Turchenkov
as Alyosha, grandson of Matvey Egorovich
as grandfather Misha
as Misha's grandmother
as Andrey Lukyanov, sailor
as Sasha Polishchuk, sailor
as Ermolaev
as Sadovnikov
as Victor Sergeevich Khvat
as Kurt Schmidt
as Anna Andreevna, wife of Mlynsky
as soldier with balalaika
as Yurchenko, scout
as partisans
as Beisembaev
as Grandma Anastasia
as Fenya
as German von Horne headquarters officer
as refugee
as Sokirka, partisan
as grandfather
as intelligence chief
as wounded soldier
as partisan sailor
as tankman
as Colonel General von Horn
as Colonel Kempe
as Standartenfuhrer Karl Wolf
as general
as episode
as офицер штаба
as немецкий офицер (нет в титрах)
as german SS officer
