A Span of Land

A Span of Land (1964) is a drama, war film directed by Andrey Smirnov, Boris Yashin rated 6.0/10.

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...

Cast

Aleksandr Zbruev

Aleksandr Motovilov

Elliya Sukhanova

Rita Tamashova

Evgeniy Urbanskiy

Alexei Babin

Sergei Kurilov

Bryl

Mikhail Vorontsov

Afanasy Makletsov

Aleksandr Titov

Shumilin

Viktor Suskin

Sayenko

Anatoli Golik

Mezentsev

Leonid Chubarov

Sinyukov

Aleksey Zaytsev

Kokhanyuk

Lev Durov

Sergeant

Yuri Volyntsev

Captain Yatsenko