Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 130 min
- Age rating
- 15
- Language
- Russian
- Country
- Russia
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- In Russian — subtitles on.
The story
The story of the Podolsk cadets’ heroic stand outside Moscow in October 1941. Cadets were sent to the Ilyinsky line, fighting alongside units from the Soviet 43rd Army to hold back the German advance until reinforcements arrived. Hopelessly outnumbered, young men laid down their lives in a battle lasting almost two weeks to obstruct the far superior German forces advancing towards Moscow. Around 3,500 cadets and their commanding officers were sent to hold up the last line of defense outside Moscow. Most of them remained there for eternity.
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Aleksey Bardukov
Afanasiy Aleshkin
Evgeniy Dyatlov
Ivan Strelbitskiy
Sergey Bezrukov
Ivan Starchak
Lyubov Konstantinova
Masha Grigoryeva
- Artem Gubin — Sashka Lavrov
- Igor Yudin — Mitya Shemyakin
- Guram Bablishvili — Museridze
- Dmitry Solomykin — Shapovalov
- Roman Madyanov — Vasily Smirnov
- Yekaterina Rednikova — Nikitina
- Sergey Bondarchuk — Dementyev
- Darya Ursulyak — Liza Aleshkina
- Daniil Spivakovskiy — Uglov
- Vasiliy Mishchenko — Eliseev
- Gleb Bochkov — Yakhin
- Directed
- Vadim Shmelyov
- Written
- Vadim Shmelyov, Igor Ugolnikov
Production
- Rating
- 6.6 / 10 · 92 ratings
- Studio
- VoenFilm, Cinema Foundation of Russia
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
