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July 1942. Soviet forces are retreating in the face of a massive German onslaught towards Stalingrad. An infantry platoon is tasked with holding a vital hill in order to give their comrades time to cross the Don River and regroup.
Vyacheslav Tikhonov
Nikolay Streltsov
Nonna Mordyukova
Natalya Stepanovna
Vasiliy Shukshin
Pyotr Lopakhin
Igor Kuznetsov
(as I. Kuznetsov)