A 1945 Soviet war film which, along with the second part of Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible was harshly criticized by Andrei Zhdanov and banned. A version of the film, released in 1956 during the Khrushchev Thaw, was disowned by director Grigori Kozintsev because the reediting was done without his participation.
Director: Grigori Kozintsev
Olga Lebzak
Eryomina
Boris Zhukovsky
Makeyev
F. Babadzhanov
Akbashev
Ekaterina Korchagina-Aleksandrovskaya
Granny
Iraida Kudryavtseva
Varvara Shapkina
Larisa Yemelyantseva
Sasha Slepnyova
Vladimir Kolchin
Ivanov
Tatyana Pelttser
Plaksina