Production :
Prix Staline (degré 1, pour la première artie du film), 1942
Plot synopsis
The autumn of 1918. In the course of the Civil War Tsaritsyn, a large city and a major port on the Volga river became the place of a decisive battle between the White Army counterrevolutionaries and the Red Army troops.
Cossack Perchikhin and a factory worker Katya Davydova actively participate in mobilization of the city residents for the defense of Tsaritsyn together with the Red Army units headed by the Red Army commander Voroshilov and the Moscow envoy Stalin.
Two parts of the film were shot simultaneously. The second part was never released.
The authors of the film were honored the Stalin’s Prize of the USSR.
Source : www.lenfilm.ru
