THE DAWNS HERE ARE QUIET (2 DVD NTSC)

190 min, Gorky Film Studio, 1972. Director: Stanislav Rostotskij. Starring: Elena Drapeko, Ekaterina Markova, Ol'ga Ostroumova, Irina Shevchuk, Irina Dolganova, Andrej Martynov, Lyudmila Zajtseva, Alla Mecsheryakova, Aleksej Chernov, Yurij Sorokin, Viktor Avdyushko, Vladimir Ivashov, Kirill Stolyarov, Boris Tokarev, Inna Kmit. The film is set in the Russian Karelia in the autumn of 1941, during the Second World War (1941-1945). Five female anti-aircraft gunners, who are mostly under twenty years old, and their commander, Sergeant Vaskov, discover that a German subversive detachment has landed in the region. The information must be delivered to the headquarters. However, the saboteurs have broken communications, cutting off the small group from their own people and leaving them no hope of getting any help. The enemy endeavors to penetrate further into the rear of the Soviet army on a mission to destroy a number of essential facilities. Vaskov and the young women accept battle, although outnumbered by Fascists who are armed to the teeth...