Story about The Brest Fortress / Fortress of War / Brestskaya krepost / Брестская Крепость / 兵临城下 / 布列斯特要塞 / 兵临城下之决战要塞
A war drama set during the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, in which Russian troops h...
A war drama set during the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, in which Russian troops held on to a border stronghold for nine days.
The film shows the heroic defene of the Brest Fortress, which had taken upon the firt strike of German fascist invader on June 22 1941. Story describes the events of the firt days of the defene. The film tells about three main resistance zones, headed by the regiment commander, Pyotr Mikhailovich Gavrilov, the commissar Efim Moiseevich Fomin and the head of the 9th frontier outpost, Andrey Mitrofanovich Kizhevatov. Many year later veteran Alexander Akimov again and again recalls the memories of the time, when he, then a 15 year old Sasha Akimov was deeply in love with the beautiful Anya and suddenly found himself in the middle of the bloody events of war.