Overview
The autumn of 1941. Leningrad is besieged by the Nazis. A new model of tank is being developed at a large defense plant. Built in the shortest possible time combat vehicles are tested directly on battlefields, fighting with fascists in the outskirts of the city. The first feature film about the heroic everyday life of city defenders was shot directly in assembly shops of plants and in the streets of Leningrad when the city was fighting against the enemy
Cast
- Boris Babochkin as Rodionov the son, an engineer
- Tamara Makarova as Kovaleva
- Nikolai Cherkasov as Rodionov (father)
- Aleksandr Khvylia as Pronin, an engineer
- Pyotr Aleynikov as Grisha, a driver
- Boris Blinov as Bondarets, a sailor
- Vasilii Zaichikov as Party Committee Secretary
- Pyotr Kirillov as Krasnosheev
- Nikolay Dubinskiy as Vlasov
- N. Mitrushenko as Serezhka