Summary
Hussein Erkenov's courageous and stinging indictment of communism. Five young Red Army recruits struggle for survival against the merciless violence that surrounds them on a daily basis. Their only means of saving their dignity is by preserving the humanity and compassion they share for each other.
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Audiences 43GoodWatch 45
IMDb5.3
Audience score33%
Running time
1 h 11 min
Shorter than 9 in 10 dramas, −38 min on the typical 109
typical 10971Half of all dramas run 98–125 min.
Reach
Streams in 5 countries
Released
1991
February 1, 1991
35 years ago
Genre
DramaLanguage
Russian
Original language
Made in
Russia
12 of 12
Directing · 1
- Hussein Erkenov Director
Writing · 2
- Yuri Polyakov Writer
- Vladimir Kholodov Writer
Production · 1
- Aleksandr Zosimenko Executive Producer
Camera · 1
- Vladislav Menshikov Director of Photography
Editing · 2
- Galina Dmitriyeva Editor
- Vladimir Portnov Editor
Sound · 2
- Johann Sebastian Bach Music
- Viktor Duritsyn Sound
Art · 2
- Sergey Serebrenikov Production Design
- Sergey Filenko Production Design
Costume & Make-Up · 1
- Nina Chernysheva Costume Design
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