In January 1942, Adolf Hitler appoints Fedor von Bock to command Army Group South and supervise Operation Blau. The German forces advance in the south of Russia, scattering the Soviets and approaching Stalingrad, that seems on the verge of falling to the enemy's hands. The movie ends with Vasily Chuikov assuming command of the 62nd Army at September.
Mikhail Ulyanov
Archil Gomiashvili
Sergey Nikonenko
Boris Nevzorov
Bruno Frejndlikh
Liubomiras Laucevičius
Yelena Tonunts
Yuri Kuzmenko
Fyodor Bondarchuk
Powers Boothe
Fernando Allende
Valeri Tsvetkov
Achim Petry
Ronald Lacy
Vadim Lobanov
Günter Junghans
Sergey Garmash
Andrey Smolyakov
Oksana Fandera
Oksana Fomichyova
Oleg Utkin
Olga Lebedeva
Larisa Shakhvorostova
Nikolay Kryuchkov
Aleksandr Goloborodko
Evgeni Burenkov
Nikolay Zasukhin
Vladimir Troshin
Vyacheslav Yezepov
T. Goladze
Alexander Kudinov
Roman Grekov
Oleg Uryumtsev
Gerbert Dmitriev
Boris Levkovich
Siegfried Foss
Ernst Heise
Erich Thiede
Gerd Michael Henneberg
Helmut Helstorf
Karel Weirjik
Herbert Sturm
Horst Schulze
Valentin Golubenko
Valdas Mykolas Jatautis
Vitali Rosstalnoy