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.

Mariya Smolnikova
as Katya

Yanina Studilina
as Masha

Pyotr Fyodorov
as Kapitan Gromov

Thomas Kretschmann
as Kapitan Kan

Sergey Bondarchuk
as Sergey Astakhov

Dmitry Lysenkov
as Chvanov

Andrey Smolyakov
as Polyakov

Aleksey Barabash
as Nikiforov

Oleg Volku
as Krasnov

Heiner Lauterbach
as Khenze