In the summer of 1932, Sergei Lukonin, a young man from Saratov, leaves his hometown for the distant city of Omsk to attend tank school. His fiancée, Varenka, who soon became an actress, remained in Saratov. In 1936, Sergei went to fight in the Spanish Civil War. He was wounded, taken prisoner, escaped, and returned to training battles, with June 1941 looming ahead.
Cast
Crew
Aleksandr Stolper
Director, Writer
Boris Ivanov
Director
Anna Kulganek
Editor
Sergei Uralov
Director of Photography
Lev Brozhovskiy
First Assistant Director
F. Levshina
Second Assistant Director
Fridrikh Ermler
Producer
V. Gutin
Producer
Yosyp Shpinel
Production Design
Arnold Vaysfeld
Production Design
Samuil Rubashkin
Camera Operator
Amina Akhmetova
Assistant Camera
S. Klyuchevsky
Sound Director
Aleksandr Ptushko
Visual Effects Director
Fedor Krasniy
VFX Supervisor
Mikhail Krotkin
VFX Supervisor
Boris Gorbachev
VFX Director of Photography
Nikolai Kryukov
Original Music Composer
Konstantin Simonov
Lyricist, Theatre Play
Natalya Konchalovskaya
Lyricist
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