A Span of Land (movie)
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- Production country: Soviet Union
- Producer: Andrey Smirnov , Boris Yashin
- Production companies: Mosfilm
- Genre: Drama, War
- Release date: 12/21/1964
- Run time: 83 min.
Movie description
The film is about the hot war summer of 1944. A group of several gun crews defends a tiny bridgehead on the right bank of the Dniester. The fates of the main characters: the front-line soldier-battalion commander Babin, the young lieutenant Motovilov, the nurse Rita Tamashova and the rank-and-file gunners, soldiers, among whom are brave people, faint-hearted and scoundrels, unnoticed heroes, are shown in a setting of several hours of peaceful life before another violent attack of the enemy, after which not everyone will survive...