A Span of Land (1964)
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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...
- Date of release
- 1964-12-21
- TMDB
- 6.0 / 10 (2)
- Runtime
- 1h 23m
- Genres
- Drama, War
- Director
- Andrey Smirnov, Boris Yashin
Casting
- Aleksandr Zbruev — Aleksandr Motovilov
- 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
Interesting facts
A Span of Earth is a 1964 Soviet World War II film directed by Andrey Smirnov and Boris Yashin.
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