A Span of Land

Dec 21, 1964

1h 23m

★ 6.0

Overview

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...

Genres

Drama

War

Production Companies

Mosfilm

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Cast

Aleksandr Motovilov

Aleksandr Zbruev

Rita Tamashova

Elliya Sukhanova

Alexei Babin

Evgeniy Urbanskiy

Bryl

Sergei Kurilov

Afanasy Makletsov

Mikhail Vorontsov

Shumilin

Aleksandr Titov

Sayenko

Viktor Suskin

Mezentsev

Anatoli Golik

Sinyukov

Leonid Chubarov

Kokhanyuk

Aleksey Zaytsev

Sergeant

Lev Durov

Captain Yatsenko

Yuri Volyntsev

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