Film · Drama, War
A Span of Land (1964)
★ 6.0 · 2 votes1 h 23 minDrama, War1964
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...
- Director
- Andrey Smirnov, Boris Yashin
- Writers
- Grigori Baklanov, L. Lazarev
- Country
- Russia
- Language
- Russian
- Release date
- December 21, 1964
- Original title
- Пядь земли
Cast
Aleksandr ZbruevAleksandr Motovilov- Elliya SukhanovaRita Tamashova
Evgeniy UrbanskiyAlexei Babin
Sergei KurilovBryl
Mikhail VorontsovAfanasy Makletsov
Aleksandr TitovShumilin
Viktor SuskinSayenko
Anatoli GolikMezentsev
Leonid ChubarovSinyukov
Aleksey ZaytsevKokhanyuk
Lev DurovSergeant
Yuri VolyntsevCaptain Yatsenko
Aleksey BakharGeneralov
Ivan KosykhSenior Lieutenant
Viktor SergachyovSenior Lieutenant
Svetlana ZhivankovaMusya
