Released:
1963-06-06

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.

Director:
Aleksandr Stolper

Runtime:
3h 21min

Genre:
War, Drama

• Cast:
• 
  Kirill Lavrov
  as
  Иван Петрович Синцов, старший политрук
• 
  Anatoliy Papanov
  as
  Федор Федорович Серпилин, генерал
• 
  Aleksey Glazyrin
  as
  Алексей Денисович Малинин, старший политрук
• 
  Oleg Efremov
  as
  полковник Иванов
• 
  Lev Lyubetsky
  as
  Сергей Николаевич Шмаков, батальонный комиссар