A Span of Land (1964)

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

1964-12-21

Genres

Drama, War

Runtime

83 min

Status

Released

Directed / written by

Andrey Smirnov, Boris Yashin

TMDB rating

6.0/10 from 2 votes