During a freezing WWII winter, two Soviet partisans on a mission to gather food contend with the temperature, the occupying Germans, and their own psyches.
Directed by: Larisa Shepitko
Written by: Vasili Bykov, Larisa Shepitko, Yuri Klepikov
Music by: Alfred Schnittke
Starring: Boris Plotnikov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Lyudmila Polyakova, Viktoriya Goldentul, Sergei Yakovlev, Mariya Vinogradova, Mykola Sektymenko, Leonid Yukhin, Aleksandr Zvenigorskiy
Genre: Drama, War
Released: 1977-04-02
Runtime: 110 minutes
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