A Span of Earth

Drama, War · 1964

The film is about the hot war summer of 1944. A group of several gun crews defends a tiny bridgehead on the right bank of the Dniester. The fates of the main characters: the front-line soldier-battalion commander Babin, the young lieutenant Motovilov, the nurse Rita Tamashova and the rank-and-file gunners, soldiers, among whom are brave people, faint-hearted and scoundrels, unnoticed heroes, are shown in a setting of several hours of peaceful life before another violent attack of the enemy, after which not everyone will survive...

Starring

Andrey Smirnov, Boris Chebotaryov, Aleksandr Zbruev, Aleksandr Zbruev, Evgeniy Urbanskiy, Yuri Skhirtladze, Elliya Sukhanova, Sergei Kurilov, Boris Yashin, Evgeniy Urbanskiy, Sergei Kurilov, Grigory Baklanov, Aleksandr Titov

Director

Andrey Smirnov