

Director / Creator: Sergey Bondarchuk
In July 1942, in the Second World War, the rearguard of the Russian army protects the bridgehead of the Don River against the German army while the retreating Russian troops cross the bridge. While they move back to the Russian territory through the countryside, the soldiers show their companionship, sentiments, fears and heroism to defend their motherland.

Vasiliy Shukshin

Vyacheslav Tikhonov

Sergey Bondarchuk

Georgi Burkov

Yuriy Nikulin

Ivan Lapikov

Nikolai Gubenko

Andrei Rostotsky

Nikolay Volkov

Mykola Shutko

Evgeniy Samoylov

Nonna Mordyukova

Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy

Angelina Stepanova

Irina Skobtseva

Tatyana Bozhok

Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina

Danylo Ilchenko

Aleksey Vanin

Nikolay Gorlov