Front Without Flanks
Фронт без флангов
Release: 1974-12-20
·Runtime: 170m
·★ 3.0
War
Drama
A first episode in the trilogy about the Russian partisan's resistance against the Nazi occupation of Russia during WWII. The film is set in August of 1941, when the Nazi forces invaded and occupied the European part of Russia. Major Mlynsky is in charge of the special group of partisans. His group is absorbing other small groups of Russian soldiers, who managed to survive from the attacks of the overwhelming Nazi forces. The Nazi Armies are advancing to Moscow. Major Mlynsky is organizing the Russian partisan's resistance against the Nazis, behind the enemy lines.
Production Countries
Soviet Union
Production Companies
Mosfilm
Cast
Galina Polskikh
as Zina, the nurse
Aleksandr Denisov
as Vakulenchuk, midshipman
Pavel Kormunin
as Ignat Osyka
Vera Kuznetsova
as Misha's grandmother
Vladimir Samoylov
as Ermolaev
Mikhail Rozanov
as partisans
Nikolai Yudin
as grandfather
Hannjo Hasse
as Colonel General von Horn
Valentin Pechnikov
as Petr Sergeevich Ivanov
Svetlana Sukhovey
as Natalia Bondarenko, wife of Semyon, radio operator
Lyudmila Polyakova
as Claudia Gerasimovna, chairman of the collective farm
Jürgen Frohriep
as Colonel Kempe
Oleg Zhakov
as grandfather Matvey Egorovich
Boris Bibikov
as grandfather Misha
Aleksandr Lukyanov
as Andrey Lukyanov, sailor
Raisa Kurkina
as Anna Andreevna, wife of Mlynsky
Elena Volskaya
as Fenya
Yevgeniy Markov
as German von Horne headquarters officer
Harry Pietzsch
as Standartenfuhrer Karl Wolf
Tofik Mirzoyev
as Hasan Alievich Aliyev, Commissioner
Vsevolod Safonov
as Sadovnikov
Vladimir Ferapontov
as soldier with balalaika
Mariya Skvortsova
as Grandma Anastasia
Aleksandr Lebedev
as Sokirka, partisan
Feliks Yavorsky
as intelligence chief
Valeri Anisimov
as офицер штаба
Vyacheslav Tikhonov
as Ivan Petrovich Mlynsky, Major
Semyon Morozov
as Seregin, captain
Vladimir Zamanskiy
as Nikolai Sergeevich, commander of a partisan detachment
Aleksey Borzunov
as Petrenko, lieutenant
Anatoliy Solovyov
as Zakhar Petrovich
Mikhail Turchenkov
as Mishka Turchenkov
Nikolay Smorchkov
as partisan sailor
Horst Schulze
as general
Ivan Pereverzev
as Father Pavel (Pavel Ivanovich Vorobyov)
Filimon Sergeyev
as episode
Nikolay Gorlov
as немецкий офицер (нет в титрах)
Evgeniy Leonov-Gladyshev
as Simon Bondarenko
Viktor Shulgin
as Victor Sergeevich Khvat
Konstantin Zheldin
as Kurt Schmidt
Boris Yurchenko
as Yurchenko, scout
Yelizaveta Kuzyurina
as refugee
Yevgeni Shutov
as Ohrim Shmil
Vladimir Ivashov
as Afanasyev, captain
Anvar Boranbaev
as Beisembaev
Vladimir Lippart
as wounded soldier
Crew
Raisa Lukina
Music Editor
Igor Gostev
Director
Aleksandr Kharitonov
Director of Photography
Aleksandr Samulekin
Production Design
Venyamin Basner
Original Music Composer
Boris Bondarenko
Assistant Camera
Nikolay Smirnov
Military Consultant
Semyon Tsvigun
Novel, Screenplay
Mikhail Matusovsky
Lyricist