About the film
After the revolution the old Russian army has fallen apart. A Bolshevik commissar and a former Tsarist officer must turn a crowd of volunteers into a fighting regiment.
The film follows their difficult friendship, the first battles of the Civil War and the people caught up in a new and uncertain country.
Written by Dunsky and Frid, the authors of Air Crew, it has a strong cast of young actors who later became stars.
Did you know?
- The script is by Yuli Dunsky and Valery Frid.
- Alexander Kaidanovsky, later the Stalker, appears in an early role.
