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...
Yuriy Rabinovich | Sound |
Andrey Smirnov | Director |
Boris Yashin | Director |
Yuri Skhirtladze | Director of Photography |
Boris Chebotaryov | Production Design |
Valentin Perelyotov | Costume Design |
Vsevolod Massino | Editor |
Grigori Baklanov | Writer |