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A Span of Land (1964)
Directed by Andrey Smirnov, Boris Yashin
Drama, War · 1h 23m
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
Aleksandr Motovilov
E
Elliya Sukhanova
Rita Tamashova
Evgeniy Urbanskiy
Alexei Babin
Sergei Kurilov
Bryl
Mikhail Vorontsov
Afanasy Makletsov
Aleksandr Titov
Shumilin
Viktor Suskin
Sayenko
Anatoli Golik
Mezentsev
Leonid Chubarov
Sinyukov
Aleksey Zaytsev
Kokhanyuk
Lev Durov
Sergeant
Yuri Volyntsev
Captain Yatsenko
Crew
- Director
- Andrey Smirnov, Boris Yashin
- Writer
- Grigori Baklanov
- Director of Photography
- Yuri Skhirtladze
- Editor
- Vsevolod Massino
Details
- Original title
- Пядь земли
- Release date
- 1964-12-21
- Runtime
- 1h 23m
- Genres
- Drama, War
- Original language
- RU
- Spoken languages
- Russian
- Countries
- Soviet Union
- Production
- Mosfilm