Summary TV adaptation based on the eponymous book by Boris Vasilyev. Set in the Soviet Union in 1941, during the Second World War, Sergeant Vaskov of the Red Army is stationed at a remote artillery post. Vaskov is in charge of five young women recruited for military training. One day they are surrounded by a group of German paratroopers who were dropped into Soviet territory behind the front lines. Now Vaskov and his trainees must stop the enemy in an unequal fight. View more details
Directed : Ivan Rassomakhin
Written : Boris Vasilev Ivan Rassomakhin
Stars : Petr Shelokhonov Mikhail Khrabrov Galina Filimonova R. Miloslavskaya
Genres : Drama War
Release date : Jan 2, 1970
Countries of origin : Soviet Union
Language : Russian
Filming locations : St. Petersburg, Russia
Production companies : Gosteleradio USSR Studio of Leningrad Television
Summary TV adaptation based on the eponymous book by Boris Vasilyev. Set in the Soviet Union in 1941, during the Second World War, Sergeant Vaskov of the Red Army is stationed at a remote artillery post. Vaskov is in charge of five young women recruited for military training. One day they are surrounded by a group of German paratroopers who were dropped into Soviet territory behind the front lines. Now Vaskov and his trainees must stop the enemy in an unequal fight. View more details
Genres : Drama War
Release date : Jan 2, 1970
Countries of origin : Soviet Union
Language : Russian
Filming locations : St. Petersburg, Russia
Production companies : Gosteleradio USSR Studio of Leningrad Television
