This film ballad is dedicated to those who never returned home from WW2. A group of retreating Soviet soldiers, crossing a lunar terrain in a desperate attempt to escape death, is attacked by a German fighter plane that appears like a bolt from the blue. One by one they are killed. Then suddenly, in an unlikely denouement bordering on the mystical, the attacker is shot down with a simple rifle. For ideological reasons that defy understanding this film, one of Viktor Hres’ earliest works, was shelved in 1967 by Soviet censors. In 2010, it was restored by the Debut Studio of the Oleksander Dovzhenko Film Studio with the support of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Ukraine.
Stars: Bronius Babkauskas, Vladimir Gorobey, Vladimir Volkov, Yekaterina Krupennikova, Anatoliy Pomiluyko, Tanaberdi Kurbanov
Crew: Viktor Gres (Director), Viktor Gres (Writer), Viktor Merezhko (Writer), Oleg Martynov (Camera Operator), Volodymyr Huba (Music)
Country: Soviet Union
Language: Pусский
Studio: Dovzhenko Film Studios
Runtime: 20 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Jun 14, 1967
IMDb: 4
