
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 Khoryshev

as Danilov

as Biryukov

as Shestakov

as commander of the communist battalion

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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


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