WarDrama
Front Without Flanks
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.
Directed by Igor Gostev, Lazar Milkis
55
User score
6 votes
Status
Released
Released
April 21, 1975
Runtime
2h 50m
Language
Russian
Top cast
Vyacheslav Tikhonov
Ivan Petrovich Mlynsky, Major
Oleg Zhakov
grandfather Matvey Egorovich
Galina Polskikh
Zina, the nurse
Semyon Morozov
Seregin, captain
Yevgeni Shutov
Ohrim Shmil
Ivan Pereverzev
Father Pavel (Pavel Ivanovich Vorobyov)
Vladimir Ivashov
Afanasyev, captain
Vladimir Zamanskiy
Nikolai Sergeevich, commander of a partisan detachment
Aleksandr Denisov
Vakulenchuk, midshipman
Tofik Mirzoyev
Hasan Alievich Aliyev, Commissioner
Valentin Pechnikov
Petr Sergeevich Ivanov
Evgeniy Leonov-Gladyshev
Simon Bondarenko
Svetlana Sukhovey
Natalia Bondarenko, wife of Semyon, radio operator
Aleksey Borzunov
Petrenko, lieutenant
Pavel Kormunin
Ignat Osyka
Lyudmila Polyakova
Claudia Gerasimovna, chairman of the collective farm
Anatoliy Solovyov
Zakhar Petrovich
Mikhail Turchenkov
Mishka Turchenkov
Yura Kasatkin
Alyosha, grandson of Matvey Egorovich
Boris Bibikov
grandfather Misha
