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02/04/1977 Drama, War 1h 50m
78
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Overview

During a freezing WWII winter, two Soviet partisans on a mission to gather food contend with the temperature, the occupying Germans, and their own psyches.

  1. Larisa Shepitko

    Writer, Director

  2. Yuri Klepikov

    Writer

Top billed cast

  1. Boris Plotnikov

    Sotnikov

  2. Vladimir Gostyukhin

    Rybak

  3. Anatoliy Solonitsyn

    Portnov, collaborationist interrogator

  4. Lyudmila Polyakova

    Avginya Demchikha, the mother

  5. Viktoriya Goldentul

    Basya Meyer, the girl

  6. Sergei Yakovlev

    Petr Sych, village elder

  7. Mariya Vinogradova

    Village elder's wife

  8. Mykola Sektymenko

    Stas Gomenyuk, collaborationist policeman

  9. Leonid Yukhin

    Partisan commander

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2024-12-15
This starts and finishes with the same shot - a freezing cold snowscape peppered with a few telegraph poles amidst a wilderness that the Soviet population were prepared to to die to protect from the invading Nazis. Two Red Army partisans are doing their best to frustrate their enemy whilst combating the brutality of the terrain and the climate. "Sotnikov" (Boris Plotnikov) and "Rybak" (Vladimir Gostyukhin) are out foraging for food when they encounter some sheep and then themselves become the hunted as a patrol chases them to a remote farmhouse and thence conveys them to a prison. It's here th...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
Russian

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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