A band of determined Russian soldiers fight to hold a strategic building in their devastated city against a ruthless German army, and in the process become deeply connected to a Russian woman who has been living there.

Thomas Kretschmann
as Kapitan Kan

Yanina Studilina
as Masha

Philippe Reinhardt
as Gottfried

Heiner Lauterbach
as Khenze

Mariya Smolnikova
as Katya

Andrey Smolyakov
as Polyakov

Oleg Volku
as Krasnov

Pyotr Fyodorov
as Kapitan Gromov

Sergey Bondarchuk
as Sergey Astakhov

Dmitry Lysenkov
as Chvanov