The story of the Podolsk cadets’ heroic stand outside Moscow in October 1941. Cadets were sent to the Ilyinsky line, fighting alongside units from the Soviet 43rd Army to hold back the German advance until reinforcements arrived. Hopelessly outnumbered, young men laid down their lives in a battle lasting almost two weeks to obstruct the far superior German forces advancing towards Moscow. Around 3,500 cadets and their commanding officers were sent to hold up the last line of defense outside Moscow. Most of them remained there for eternity.
as Afanasiy Aleshkin
as Ivan Strelbitskiy
as Ivan Starchak
as Masha Grigoryeva
as Sashka Lavrov
as Mitya Shemyakin
as Museridze
as Shapovalov
as Vasily Smirnov
as Nikitina
as Dementyev
as Liza Aleshkina
as Uglov
as Eliseev
as Yakhin
as Bogatov
as Simonov
as Slavik Nikitin
as Azamat Khalilov
as Ibragimov
as Vasilkov
as officer
as nurse
as Orlenko
as Kalinin
as Andrey Tkachenko
as Nosov
as Wehrmacht soldier
as nurse
as Shipilov
as Remizov
as Zuev
as Petrov
as Erokhin
as Ozerov
as Lev Novikov
as Verner
as Ufimtsev
as cook officer
as Karpovna
as Mamchich
as Mamedov
as Vera
as Volkov
as Vova
