The autumn of 1941. Leningrad is besieged by the Nazis. A new model of tank is being developed at a large defense plant. Built in the shortest possible time combat vehicles are tested directly on battlefields, fighting with fascists in the outskirts of the city. The first feature film about the heroic everyday life of city defenders was shot directly in assembly shops of plants and in the streets of Leningrad when the city was fighting against the enemy
Борис Бабочкин
as Rodionov the son, an engineer
Тамара Макарова
as Kovaleva
Николай Черкасов
as Rodionov the father, a worker
Александр Хвыля
as Pronin, an engineer
Vasilii Zaichikov
as Party Committee Secretary
Petr Aleinikov
as Grisha, a driver
Boris Blimov
as Bondarets, a sailor
Pyotr Kirillov
as Krasnosheev
Nikolai Dubinskii
as Vlasov
N. Mitrushenko
as Serezhka
