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A Span of Land 1964 Directed by Andrey Smirnov , Boris Yashin Пядь земли

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...

Production Country Soviet Union
Language Russian
Spoken Language Russian
Gneres Drama , War
Production Company Mosfilm
Release Date 21 December 1964
83 mins
Cast
Aleksandr Zbruev Aleksandr Motovilov
Elliya Sukhanova Rita Tamashova
Evgeniy Urbanskiy Alexei Babin
Mikhail Vorontsov Afanasy Makletsov
Anatoli Golik Mezentsev
Aleksey Zaytsev Kokhanyuk
Lev Durov Sergeant
Yuri Volyntsev Captain Yatsenko
Aleksey Bakhar Generalov
Ivan Kosykh Senior Lieutenant
Viktor Sergachyov Senior Lieutenant