A Russian war correspondent is drafted into the war and finds himself in the middle of battle. When he loses his party card, however, he is treated as a deserter until he finds help from a kind man. This Soviet war feature was considerably outspoken for the time as it addressed issues such as anti-Stalinism, Siberia and the inhumanity of war. Adapting his screenplay from a book by Constantin Simonov, Alexandre Stolper was responsible for writing as well as directing.
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as Malinin
as Ivanov
as Ovsyannikova
as Shmakov
as Masha
as Zaychikov
as Lyusin
as Misha
as Zolotaryov
as Khoryshev
as Danilov
as Biryukov
as Shestakov
as commander of the communist battalion
as special officer
as Komarov
as pilot
as Ryabchenko
as Baranov
as Sergei Filippovich
as policeman
as Zosima Ivanovich
as battalion commissar
as Baranova
as Serpilina
as Kozyryov
as Leonidov
as Pasha Kulikov's aunt
as Kovalchuk
as Sytin
as Orlov
as Efremov
as Lenka
as colonel
as Yolkin
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