CAST:
Vladimir Zamansky (Lazarev),
Rolan Bykov (Lokotov),
Anatoli Solonitsyn (Petouchkov),
Oleg Borisov (Solomine),
Fyodor Odinokov (Erofeitch)

SCRIPT:
Eduard Volodarsky (prema pričama Yuria Germana)

PHOTOGRAPHY:
B. Aleksandrovsky,
Lev Kolganov,
Yakov Sklyansky

Synopsis:
This film is the directing debut of Aleksei German. It is a war film that has been banned in the Soviet Union for fifteen years. The protagonist is Lazarev, a German soldier and Russian captive during WW II. He claims that he was a sergeant in the Russian army before he was forced to fight on the German side. Nevertheless, Russians want to shoot him but, thanks to lieutenant Erofeitch, Lazarev gets a chance to fight on the Russian side.

b/w, 97 min