
In July 1942, in the Second World War, the rearguard of the Russian army protects the bridgehead of the Don River against the German army while the retreating Russian troops cross the bridge. While they move back to the Russian territory through the countryside, the soldiers show their companionship, sentiments, fears and heroism to defend their motherland.

as Pyotr Lopakhin

as pvt. Nikolay Strel'tsov

as pvt. Ivan Zvyagintsev

as pvt. Alexander Kopytovsky

as pvt. Nekrasov

as sergeant Poprischenko

as lieutenant Goloschyokov

as corporal Kochetygov

as pvt. Nikiforov

as cook lisichenko

as Colonel Marchenko

as Natalya Stepanovna

as surgeon

as old Cossack woman

as head nurse

as nurse

as Glasha

as Luka Mikhalych

as soldier Akim Borzykh


as the chairman

as captain Sumskov

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as Pyotr Lopakhin (voice) (uncredited)

as Glasha (voice) (uncredited)

as narrator (voice) (uncredited)