Overview

Beginning of WWII. Zinaida, a Russian woman, is taken prisoner by the Germans and sent to Auschwitz concentration camp together with several other women. She is imprisoned with her baby son, Gena, who is learning to walk and takes his first steps in the snow, in the concentration camp. They spend a few years together in the camp until they are separated, first within Auschwitz itself, then, for good, when the Germans are losing the war and decide to evacuate.

Genres

Cast

Lyudmila Kasatkina

Zinaida Vorobyova

Lyudmila Ivanova

Nadezhda

Tadeusz Borowski

Eugeniusz Truszczyński

Ryszarda Hanin

Halina Truszczyńska

Vladimir Ivashov

major

Leon Niemczyk

Capt. Piotrowski

Heinz Braun

Elżbieta Burakowska

Anna Wesołowska

Pavel Vinnik

Elena Volskaya

Gelena Ivlieva