Movielogr
A Span of Land (1964)
Directed by Andrey Smirnov, Boris Yashin
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…
Length 83 minutes
Actors
Aleksandr Zbruev | Elliya Sukhanova | Evgeniy Urbanskiy | Sergei Kurilov | Mikhail Vorontcov | Aleksandr Titov | Viktor Suskin | Anatolij Golik | Leonid Chubarov | Aleksey Zaytsev | Lev Durov | Yuri Volyntsev | Alexey Bahar | Иван Косых | Viktor Sergachyov | Svetlana Zhivankova