

Surrounded by a few party officials, Alexei Ivanov, a stakhanovist smelter, is decorated by Stalin. The "Little Father of the Peoples" takes this opportunity to invoke threats of war.... One day, war indeed breaks out. Bombs fall on the field where Alexei finds himself in the company of the schoolmistress Natacha, his fiancée. Alexei joins the Red Army and soon becomes a sergeant. Fighting rages and German troops advance. Natacha is arrested and deported. But the tide turns decisively with the German defeat at Stalingrad. Now the major offensive against Hitler can begin.

Mikheil Gelovani

Maksim Shtraukh

Aleksei Gribov

Nikolai Ryzhov

Gavriil Belov

Ruben Simonov

G. Pasechnik

Vladimir Lyubimov

Sergei Blinnikov

Boris Livanov

Fyodor Blazhevich

Konstantin Bartashevich

Andrei Abrikosov

Boris Tenin

A. Poyarkov

Mikhail Sidorkin

Boris Andreyev

Marina Kovalyova

Yurii Tymoshenko

Sofiya Giatsintova

Nikolai Bogolyubov

Dmitri Pavlov

A. Urazaliev

Dmitriy Dubov

Giorgi Tatishvili

Oleg Frelikh

Viktor Stanitsyn

Vladimir Savelyev

Marie Nováková

Jan Werich

Nikolai Petrunkin

Vladimir Kenigson

Veriko Anjaparidze

Nikolai Plotnikov

Vladimir Pokrovskiy

Miroslav Homola

Vergiliy Renin

Karel Roden

Nikolai Aparin

Mikhail Kapustin

Bazyli Sikiewicz

V. Hartnik

Vladimir Lebedev

Yevgeniya Melnikova

Wolfgang Paulsen

Viktor Klyucharyov

Willi Narloch

Ya. Brandes

Ivan Solovyov

E. Cowan

Jaroslav Mareš

Tamara Nosova

Jaroslav Orlický

N. Zagrebelsky

Aleksandra Danilova

Lyudmila Krasheninnikova

Viktor Lebedev

Georgi Millyar

Grigory Mikhaylov

Pyotr Mukhin

Andrei Petrov

Leonid Pirogov

Aleksandr Khanov

Vladimir Prokhorov

Vsevolod Sanayev

Nikolay Sibeikin

Vladimir Tsoppi

Nikolai Shavykin