When Floria finds a weapon, he decides to join the partisans who fight against the Nazi invasion. But they abandon him together with Glasha and both decide to go back to Floria’s village, where they find all the inhabitants turned into a pile of corpses. Soon later, they meet with a group of survivors who need food. Later, Floria falls into the Nazi’s hands, who burn an entire village in a barn. The aesthetical achievements make this film shocking; it is considered one of the fundamental pieces in the history of Soviet cinema.

DIRECTOR:

Elem Klímov

CAST:

Olga Mironova (Olga), Mironova (Glasha), Alekséi Krávchenko (Alekséi), Krávchenko (Florya Gaishun), Liubomiras Laucevicius (Liubomiras), Laucevicius (Kosach), Vladas Bagdonas (Roubej), Viktors Lorencs (Vācu armijas majors), Jüri Lumiste, Yevgeny Tilicheyev (Gezhel)