
The film tells the story of those who took part in the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942, which became a turning point in the Great Patriotic War. For five months, the city resisted the Nazi offensive. Surrendering Stalingrad to the enemy would have meant losing the war, but holding on to the city seemed almost impossible.

Mikhail Derzhavin
General Muravyov

Pyotr Andriyevsky
General Vinogradov

Yuriy Tolubeev
Lavrov

Andrei Abrikosov
General Krivenko

Aleksandr Zrazhevsky
General Panteleyev

Nikolai Korn
General-major
S. Rakhmanin
Chied of front intelligence

Mark Bernes
Minutka, driver

Vladimir Maryev
Lieutenant Fyodorov

Pavel Volkov
Stepan

Mikhail Devyatkin
General Studentsov (uncredited)

Galina Iniutina
Liza Muravyova (uncredited)

Sergei Karnovich-Valua
Bon Klaus
Nikolai Stepanov
Stepan's comrade (uncredited)

Fedor Fedorovski
(uncredited)