A first episode in the trilogy about the Russian partisan’s resistance against the Nazi occupation of Russia during WWII. The film is set in August of 1941, when the Nazi forces invaded and occupied the European part of Russia. Major Mlynsky is in charge of the special group of partisans. His group is absorbing other small groups of Russian soldiers, who managed to survive from the attacks of the overwhelming Nazi forces. The Nazi Armies are advancing to Moscow. Major Mlynsky is organizing the Russian partisan’s resistance against the Nazis, behind the enemy lines.
Length 170 minutes
Vyacheslav Tikhonov | Oleg Zhakov | Galina Polskikh | Semyon Morozov | Yevgeni Shutov | Ivan Pereverzev | Vladimir Ivashov | Vladimir Zamanskiy | Aleksandr Denisov | Tofig Mirzayev | Valentin Pechnikov | Evgeniy Leonov-Gladyshev | Svetlana Sukhovey | Aleksey Borzunov | Pavel Kormunin | Lyudmila Polyakova | Anatoliy Solovyov | Михаил Турченков | Yura Kasatkin | Boris Bibikov | Vera Kuznetsova | Aleksandr Lukyanov | Nikolay Polishchuk | Vladimir Samoylov | Vsevolod Safonov | Viktor Shulgin | Konstantin Zheldin | Raisa Kurkina | Vladimir Ferapontov | Boris Yurchenko | Mikhail Rozanov | Anvar Boranbaev | Mariya Skvortsova | Yelena Volskaya | Evgeniy Markov | Yelizaveta Kuzyurina | Aleksandr Lebedev | Nikolai Yudin | Feliks Yavorsky | Vladimir Lippart | Nikolay Smorchkov | Viktor Volkov | Hannjo Hasse | Jürgen Frohriep | Harry Pietzsch | Horst Schulze | Filimon Sergeyev | Valeri Anisimov | Nikolay Gorlov