Release, runtime and language

1972 · 105 mins · Russian

Directed by

Gavriil Egiazarov

Starring

Yuriy Nazarov, Дмитрий Сорокин, Boris Tokarev, Vladimir Ivanov, Nikolay Eryomenko, Pavel Sirotin

In November 1942, near the Volga, Stalingrad is besieged by German Commander Friedrich Paulus and his 330,000 troops. The Soviet high command launches a desperate operation to hold the Mishkova River, aiming to prevent roughly four hundred tanks from reinforcing Paulus. Soviet artillerymen defend the line to the last, fighting a brutal melee that leaves only a handful of survivors.