They Were Known Only By Their Faces

Feb 6, 1967

1h 27m

★ 5.5

Overview

Explosions are raging in one of the ports in the territory occupied by the German fascist invaders. An old and experienced military leader, Admiral Reinhardt, arrives to investigate these emergencies. Together with the head of the Gestapo, SS Standartenfuehrer Hübe, he takes all measures to suppress the activity of the partisans, raids and arrests, but all in vain. Underwater sabotage continues. A detachment of fighters with experience of submarine warfare is sent from Italy to fight the demolitions.

Genres

War

Drama

Adventure

Production Companies

Dovzhenko Film Studios

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Cast

Galina Ortynskaya

Irina Miroshnichenko

Sergei Kulagin

Aleksandr Belyavskiy

Hübe

Yuri Volkov

admiral Reinhardt

Vladimir Yemelyanov

Norte

Vladimir Volchik

von Goetz

Sergei Golovanov

Wilma

Yelena Dobronravova

del Sarto

Anatoliy Verbitskiy

Adamova

Marianna Strizhenova

Gordeyev

Stepan Krylov

Yaroshchuk

Henrikh Ostashevskyi

Farino

Gennadi Voropayev

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