Overview
"Iskra" is the codename for the plan of the operation of the Soviet troops to break the blockade of Leningrad. In January 1943, the blockade of Leningrad was broken. A corridor 8-11 km wide was formed between Lake Ladoga and the front line.
Director and cast
- Yuriy Solomin as Aleksei Zvyagintsev
- Yevgeni Lebedev as Ivan Korolyov
- Irina Akulova as Vera Korolyova
- Vladislav Strzhelchik as Fyodor Valitskiy
- Aleksandr Razin as Anatoliy Valitskiy
- Boris Gorbatov as Joseph Stalin
- Sergei Kharchenko as Zhdanov
- Roman Gromadskiy as Aleksey Kuznetsov
- Aleksei Presnetsov as General Govorov
- Mikhail Ulyanov as Georgiy Zhukov
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