The film covers the heroic defence of the Brest Fortress, which was attacked during the first strike of German invaders on June 22 1941. The story describes the events of the first days of the defence, including the three main resistance zones, headed by the regiment commander, Pyotr Mikhailovich Gavrilov, the commissar Efim Moiseevich Fomin and the head of the 9th frontier outpost, Andrey Mitrofanovich Kizhevatov. Many years later veteran Alexander Akimov again recalls the memories of the time, when he, then a 15 year old Sasha Akimov was deeply in love with the beautiful Anya and suddenly found himself in the middle of the bloody events of war.
Andrey Merzlikin
Pavel Derevyanko
Veronika Nikonova
Yevgeni Tsyganov
Anna Tsukanova-Kott
Aleksei Kopashov
Aleksandr Korshunov
Yana Esipovich
Anatoly Kot
Madlen Dzhabrailova
Tatyana Kamina
Mikhail Pavlik
Kirill Boltaev
Aleksandr Saptsov
Maxim Kostromykin
Aleksey Dmitriev
John Bakhanbaev
Dmitriy Kulichkov
Evgeny Kharitonov
Maxim Krechetov
Garik Vepshkovsky
Segrey Tsepov
Yuriy Anpilogov
Sergey Vlasov
Aleksandr Sirin
Ilya Mozgovoy
Benik Arakelyan
Evgeny Sangadzhiev
Ivan Krasko
Gennadiy Garbuk
Rinat Ibragimov
Igor Denisov
Aleksandr Kuzmichyov
Vasili Molodtsov
Elena Dubrovskaya
Mikhail Evlanov
Sergey Savenkov
Denis Parshin
Egor Petrov
Maksim Litovchenko
Vladimir Kapustin
Nodari Dzhanelidze
Andrey Senkin
Evgeny Ivkovich