A Span of Land (1964)
Drama · War
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...
Cast
- Aleksandr Zbruev as Aleksandr Motovilov
- Elliya Sukhanova as Rita Tamashova
- Evgeniy Urbanskiy as Alexei Babin
- Sergei Kurilov as Bryl
- Mikhail Vorontsov as Afanasy Makletsov
- Aleksandr Titov as Shumilin
- Viktor Suskin as Sayenko
- Anatoli Golik as Mezentsev
- Leonid Chubarov as Sinyukov
- Aleksey Zaytsev as Kokhanyuk