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Also known as Earth's Span, Pyad zemli

1964 Soviet drama war film by Andrei Smirnov

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6.0

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...

Released: 1964-12-2183 minDir: Andrey SmirnovDrama, War

Cast

  • Aleksandr Zbruev as Aleksandr Motovilov
  • Elliya Sukhanova as Rita Tamashova
  • Evgeniy Urbanskiy as Alexei Babin
  • Sergei Kurilov as Bryl
  • Mikhail Vorontsov as Afanasy Makletsov
  • Aleksandr Titov as Shumilin

Themes

  • world war ii
  • soviet union
  • black and white

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Ratings

IMDb

7/10

58 votes

Year
1964
Runtime
78 min
Genres
Drama, War

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
film
Country of origin
Soviet Union
Original language
Russian
Screenwriter
Grigory Baklanov
Production company
Mosfilm
Duration
83
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publication date
1964-12-21
title
Пядь земли
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