A Span of Land (1964)

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...

Released Dec. 21, 1964 83 min None+

Genres: Drama, War

Keywords: tmdb.world-war-ii, tmdb.soviet-union, tmdb.black-and-white, imdb.wound, imdb.captain, imdb.gunner, imdb.soviet + 13 more, imdb.german, imdb.fascist, imdb.dniester-river, imdb.great-patriotic-war, imdb.world-war-two, imdb.year-1944, imdb.soviet-union, imdb.soldier, imdb.commander, imdb.lieutenant, imdb.summer, imdb.based-on-story, aspectratio.1-33-1