A first episode in the trilogy about the Russian partisan's resistance against the Nazi occupation of Russia during WWII. The film is set in August of 1941, when the Nazi forces invaded and occupied the European part of Russia. Major Mlynsky is in charge of the special group of partisans. His group is absorbing other small groups of Russian soldiers, who managed to survive from the attacks of the overwhelming Nazi forces. The Nazi Armies are advancing to Moscow. Major Mlynsky is organizing the Russian partisan's resistance against the Nazis, behind the enemy lines.
Vyacheslav Tikhonov
Oleg Zhakov
Galina Polskikh
Semyon Morozov
Yevgeni Shutov
Ivan Pereverzev
Vladimir Ivashov
Vladimir Zamanskiy
Aleksandr Denisov
Tofig Mirzayev
Valentin Pechnikov
Evgeniy Leonov-Gladyshev
Svetlana Sukhovey
Aleksey Borzunov
Pavel Kormunin
Lyudmila Polyakova
Anatoliy Solovyov
Михаил Турченков
Yura Kasatkin
Boris Bibikov
Vera Kuznetsova
Aleksandr Lukyanov
Nikolay Polishchuk
Vladimir Samoylov
Vsevolod Safonov
Viktor Shulgin
Konstantin Zheldin
Raisa Kurkina
Vladimir Ferapontov
Boris Yurchenko
Mikhail Rozanov
Anvar Boranbaev
Mariya Skvortsova
Elena Volskaya
Evgeniy Markov
Yelizaveta Kuzyurina
Aleksandr Lebedev
Nikolai Yudin
Feliks Yavorsky
Vladimir Lippart
Nikolay Smorchkov
Viktor Volkov
Hannjo Hasse
Jürgen Frohriep
Harry Pietzsch
Horst Schulze
Filimon Sergeyev
Valeri Anisimov
Nikolay Gorlov