About the film
In the first months of the war, Major Mlynsky, a teacher before the war, finds himself behind the advancing German army. He collects soldiers cut off from their units and turns them into a special-purpose detachment.
The group fights the Germans in the forests, hunts traitors and spies, and tries to stay alive.
This is the first film of a popular trilogy, followed by Front Beyond the Front Line and Front in the Enemy's Rear.
Did you know?
- Vyacheslav Tikhonov, famous as Stirlitz, plays Mlynsky.
- It is the first part of a trilogy.
- The novel's author, Semyon Tsvigun, was a senior KGB official.
