
Fascist Italy's prime-minister Mussolini is arrested following the Allies landing in Sicily. Meanwhile, Soviet troops plan their offense towards Kyiv. Lt. Col. Lukin's regiment crosses the Dnieper river as the division's vanguard. Unbeknownst to them, they're merely a ploy to mislead the Germans so the rest of the army can catch them off guard.
Cast

Nikolay Olyalin
Tsvetaev

Larisa Golubkina
Zoya

Boris Zajdenberg
Orlov

Sergey Nikonenko
Sashka

Vsevolod Sanayev
Lukin

Vladimir Samoylov
Gromov

Yuriy Kamorniy
Vasilev

Valeriy Nosik
Dorozhkin

Jan Englert
Janek

Viktor Avdyushko
Maksimov

Igor Ozerov
Leontyev

Mikhail Ulyanov
Zhukov

Vladlen Davydov
Rokossovsky

Evgeni Burenkov
Vasilevsky

Sergei Kharchenko
Vatutin

Vladislav Strzhelchik
Antonov
Yuri Legkov
Konev

Mykola Rushkovsky
Moskalenko

Dmytro Franko
Rybalko

Konstantin Zabelin
Katukov

Bukhuti Zakariadze
Stalin

Stanisław Jaśkiewicz
Roosevelt

Yury Durov
Churchill

Fritz Diez
Hitler

Ivo Garrani
Mussolini
Gerd Michael Henneberg
Keitel
Siegfried Weiß
Manstein

Hannjo Hasse
Kluge

Peter Sturm
Model

Florin Piersic
Skorzeny

Artyom Karapetyan
narrator (voice)

Barbara Brylska
Helena

Daniel Olbrychski
Henryk

Wieńczysław Gliński
'Blacksmith'

Ignacy Machowski
old man

Tõnu Aav
episode

Voldemārs Akurāters
episode

Aleksandr Barushnoy
episode

Viktor Baykov
Vyacheslav Molotov

Nikolai Bogolyubov
Voroshilov

Georgi Burkov
episode

Valerian Vinogradov
episode
Yevgeniy Vlasov
episode

Yuri Vyshinsky
episode

Ioseb Gogichaishvili
Yakov Dzhugashvili

Valentin Grachyov
episode
V. Dzhakhutashvili
episode
Amiran Dolidze
episode

Yuriy Dubrovin
episode

Nikolay Eryomenko
episode

Yuriy Kireev
episode

Mikhail Kokshenov
episode

Yuri Leonidov
episode

Yuri Maksimov
episode

Yuri Martynov
Gromov's adjutant

Heino Mandri
episode

Grigory Mikhaylov
Mikhail Malinin

Yuriy Nazarov
episode

Ivan Mykolaichuk
Savchuk
Andrei Petrov
episode

Yuri Pomerantsev
Vlasov

Lev Polyakov
episode
Klyon Protasov
episode

Roman Tkachuk
episode
Konstantin Tyrtov
episode

Roman Khomyatov
episode
Viktor Shakhov
episode

Olev Eskola
Arthur von Cristmann
V. Weinhofer
episode

Horst Giese
episode
Horst Gill
episode

Werner Dissel
episode
Hans-Hartmut Krüger
Hans Krebs
Hans Ulrich Laufer
episode

Peter Marx
episode
Michał Adamczewski
episode

Cezary Julski
The German Soldier

Yuriy Bogolyubov
episode (uncredited)

Vladimir Vanyshev
episode (uncredited)
Aleksandr Zvenigorskiy
episode (uncredited)
Yuri Yemelyanov
episode (uncredited)
Aleksandr Kuznetsov
episode (uncredited)

Pyotr Omelchenko
episode (uncredited)

Nikolai Penkov
episode (uncredited)

Nikolai Tolkachyov
episode (uncredited)

Georgi Tusuzov
episode (uncredited)
Pyotr Krylov
episode (uncredited)
Sergei Gololobov
episode (uncredited)

Andrea Checchi
episode (uncredited)
Crew
T. Zueva
First Assistant Director Trainee

Yuri Ozerov
Director, Writer

Yuri Bondarev
Writer
Oskar Kurganov
Writer
Grigoriy Mariamov
Script Editor
Ekaterina Karpova
Editor

Igor Slabnevich
Director of Photography
Julius Kun
First Assistant Director
Elena Avakova
Assistant Director
D. Kuznetsov
Assistant Director
Lyubov Busharova
Assistant Director
O. Nikolaev
Assistant Director
Lidiya Kanareykina
Executive Producer
German Krylov
Executive Producer's Assistant
S. Pozdyankov
Executive Producer's Assistant
Vladimir Tseytlin
Executive Producer's Assistant

Aleksandr Myagkov
Production Design
Vladimir Gusev
Camera Operator
Amina Akhmetova
Camera Operator

Vitaly Abramov
Camera Operator
A. Shumilov
Assistant Camera
Anatoliy Dzhirkvelov
Assistant Camera
T. Proshin
Assistant Camera
L. Kuzmicheva
Assistant Costume Designer

Dilyara Ozerova
Costume Design
V. Sukhoretsky
Pyrotechnic Supervisor
Vladimir Yakovlev
Makeup & Hair
Yuri Mikhailov
Sound Director
Fedor Krasniy
VFX Supervisor
S. Zyablikov
VFX Supervisor
Edgar Shtyrtskober
VFX Director of Photography
Grigoriy Zaytsev
VFX Director of Photography

Yuriy Levitin
Original Music Composer
I. Fyodorov
Set Designer
Svyatoslav Gavrilov
Set Designer
V. Smirnov
Construction Manager

Bohdan Czeszko
Production Consultant
Zbigniew Załuski
Production Consultant
Zbigniew Kociuba
Production Consultant
Arsen Diklić
Production Consultant
Vlastimir Radovanović
Production Consultant
Kurt Lichterfeld
Production Consultant
Sergei Shtemenko
Military Consultant
Grigory Oryol
Military Consultant
Aleksandr Rodimtsev
Military Consultant
Sergey Sinyakov
Military Consultant
Job von Witzleben
Military Consultant
B. Volskiy
Assistant Production Design
Valentin Glass
Assistant Production Design

Emin Khachaturyan
Conductor
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