Overview
Autumn 1941. German tank troops are making another attempt to break through to the Uritsk and Pulkovo Heights. During heavy fighting, Soviet troops managed to stop the offensive of fascist tanks one and a half kilometers south of the Pulkovo Observatory. The 900 days of the blockade and the incredible courage of the Soviet people were approaching ...
Director and cast
- Yuriy Solomin as Alexey Zvyagintsev, Major
- Yevgeni Lebedev as Ivan Maksimovich Korolev
- Irina Akulova as Vera Koroleva
- Lev Zolotukhin as Pavel Maksimovich Korolev
- Vladislav Strzhelchik as Fedor Vasilievich Valitsky
- Boris Gorbatov as Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin
- Sergei Kharchenko as Andrey Alexandrovich Zhdanov
- Daniil Sagal as Kliment Efremovich Voroshilov
- Vasiliy Minin as Semyon Konstantinovich Timoshenko
- Valentin Abramov as Boris Mikhailovich Shaposhnikov
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