A Span of Earth (Пядь земли) 60 years old

The film is about the hot war summer of 1944. A group of several gun crews defends a tiny bridgehead on the right bank of the Dniester. The fates of the main characters: the front-line soldier-battalion commander Babin, the young lieutenant Motovilov, the nurse Rita Tamashova and the rank-and-file gunners, soldiers, among whom are brave people, faint-hearted and scoundrels, unnoticed heroes, are shown in a setting of several hours of peaceful life before another violent attack of the enemy, after which not everyone will survive...

Credits

A Span of Earth Cast

Name Character
Viktor Sergachyov He was 30, 78 years old when he died
Yuri Volyntsev He was 32, 67 years old when he died
Nikolai Gubenko He was 23, now 83 years old
Aleksandr Zbruev He was 26, now 86 years old
Yuriy Dubrovin He was 25, now 85 years old
Lev Durov He was 32, 83 years old when he died
Evgeniy Urbanskiy
Heinz Braun He was 81, 79 years old when he died
Yuri Smirnov He was 26, now 86 years old

A Span of Earth Crew

Name Department
Andrey Smirnov as Director. He was 23 (78) years old when He died Directing
A Span of Earth poster
A Span of Earth (60 years)

  • Release day: Monday, December 21, 1964
  • Runtime: 83 minutes