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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
Casts

Boris Babochkin
Rodionov the son, an engineer

Tamara Makarova
Kovaleva

Nikolai Cherkasov
Rodionov the father, a worker

Aleksandr Khvylya
Pronin, an engineer
Vasilii Zaichikov
Party Committee Secretary
Petr Aleinikov
Grisha, a driver
Boris Blimov
Bondarets, a sailor

Pyotr Kirillov
Krasnosheev
Nikolai Dubinskii
Vlasov
N. Mitrushenko
Serezhka
Crews

Mikhail Kalatozov
Director

Mikhail Kalatozov
Screenplay

Mikhail Bleiman
Screenplay

Sergei Gerasimov
Director

Sergei Gerasimov
Screenplay

Arkadi Koltsaty
Director of Photography

Venedict Pushkov
Original Music Composer

Moisey Magid
Director of Photography
Ivan Dmitriyev
Sound
Anatoly Bosulaev
Production Design