Sashka. A Soldier's Diary
MovieTitle | Сашка. Дневник солдата |
User score | 0 |
Release date | Aug 1, 2021 |
Genre | Drama |
Director | Kirill Zaytsev |
Production country | Russia |
Run time | 38 min. |
A veteran of the Great Patriotic War finds his front-line diary and relives the story that happened to him in the midst of the war. In the midst of fire, blood and dirt, he, then still a young Sashka, takes prisoner the same German boy. The enemy is preparing for death, but a young soldier gives him his word that Russian prisoners are not shot. Later, at the headquarters, saddened by the death of a combat friend, the battalion commander gives the order to shoot the prisoner. Sasha faces the most important choice in his life.