The autumn of 1941. Leningrad is besieged by the Nazis. A new model of tank is being developed at a large defense plant. Built in the shortest possible time combat vehicles are tested directly on battlefields, fighting with fascists in the outskirts of the city. The first feature film about the heroic everyday life of city defenders was shot directly in assembly shops of plants and in the streets of Leningrad when the city was fighting against the enemy
Directed by Sergei Gerasimov, Mikhail Kalatozov
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Cast
Boris Babochkin
Rodionov the son, an engineer
Tamara Makarova
Kovaleva
Nikolai Cherkasov
Rodionov (father)
Aleksandr Khvylia
Pronin, an engineer
Pyotr Aleynikov
Grisha, a driver
Boris Blinov
Bondarets, a sailor
Vasilii Zaichikov
Party Committee Secretary
Pyotr Kirillov
Krasnosheev
Nikolay Dubinskiy
Vlasov
N. Mitrushenko
Serezhka
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