Overview

A Russian war correspondent is drafted into the war and finds himself in the middle of battle. When he loses his party card, however, he is treated as a deserter until he finds help from a kind man. This Soviet war feature was considerably outspoken for the time as it addressed issues such as anti-Stalinism, Siberia and the inhumanity of war. Adapting his screenplay from a book by Constantin Simonov, Alexandre Stolper was responsible for writing as well as directing.

Genres

Cast

Kirill Lavrov

Sintsov

Anatoliy Papanov

Serpilin

Aleksey Glazyrin

Malinin

Oleg Efremov

Ivanov

Lyudmila Krylova

Ovsyannikova

Lev Lyubetsky

Shmakov

Lyudmila Lyubimova

Masha

Vasiliy Makarov

Zaychikov

Roman Khomyatov

Lyusin

Zinovi Vysokovsky

Misha

Yuriy Dubrovin

Zolotaryov

Igor Pushkaryov

Khoryshev