A Span of Land (1964)

• 70%
• 1964
• Drama
• War
• Andrey Smirnov
• Boris Yashin
• Aleksandr Zbruev
• Elliya Sukhanova
• Evgeniy Urbanskiy

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...