Overview
Surrounded by a few party officials, Alexei Ivanov, a stakhanovist smelter, is decorated by Stalin. The "Little Father of the Peoples" takes this opportunity to invoke threats of war.... One day, war indeed breaks out. Bombs fall on the field where Alexei finds himself in the company of the schoolmistress Natacha, his fiancée. Alexei joins the Red Army and soon becomes a sergeant. Fighting rages and German troops advance. Natacha is arrested and deported. But the tide turns decisively with the German defeat at Stalingrad. Now the major offensive against Hitler can begin.
DirectorMikheil Chiaureli
WritersPyotr Pavlenko
ScreenplayMikheil Chiaureli
Top Casts
Mikhail Gelovani
Marshal Iosef Visarionovic Stalin
Aleksei Gribov
Party official
Maksim Shtraukh
Party official
Nikolai Bogolyubov
Factory Superintendent Kumchinsky
Sofiya Giatsintova
MRs Ivanov - Alexei's mother
Boris Tenin
Gen. Chujkov
Boris Livanov
Gen. Rokossovsky
Sergei Blinnikov
Gen. Ivan Koniev
Andrei Abrikosov
Gen. Antonov
Vladimir Kenigson
Gen. Krebs
Details
LanguageRussian
Production companiesMosfilm
