A Span of Land

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...

Details

Status

Released

Release date

December 21, 1964

Original language

Russian

Spoken languages

Russian

Countries

Soviet Union

Production

Mosfilm

Cast

Aleksandr Zbruev,Elliya Sukhanova,Evgeniy Urbanskiy,Sergei Kurilov,Mikhail Vorontsov,Aleksandr Titov,Viktor Suskin,Anatoli Golik,Leonid Chubarov,Aleksey Zaytsevand 6 more

Director

Andrey Smirnov,Boris Yashin

Writer

Grigori Baklanov,L. Lazarev

Producer

Vladimir Kantorovich

Cinematography

Yuri Skhirtladze

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt5032498