Front Without Flanks

Front Without Flanks

170 mins | Drama, War | Dec. 20, 1974

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.

Front Without Flanks

170 mins | Drama, War | Dec. 20, 1974

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.
IMDb rating 6.4
Producers Mosfilm
Original title Фронт без флангов
Directors Renata Nagornaya, Igor Gostev
Writers Mikhail Matusovsky, Semyon Tsvigun

Cast

Vyacheslav Tikhonov

as Ivan Petrovich Mlynsky, Major

Oleg Zhakov

as grandfather Matvey Egorovich

Galina Polskikh

as Zina, the nurse

Semyon Morozov

as Seregin, captain

Yevgeni Shutov

as Ohrim Shmil

Ivan Pereverzev

as Father Pavel (Pavel Ivanovich Vorobyov)

Vladimir Ivashov

as Afanasyev, captain

Vladimir Zamanskiy

as Nikolai Sergeevich, commander of a partisan detachment

Aleksandr Denisov

as Vakulenchuk, midshipman

Tofig Mirzayev

as Hasan Alievich Aliyev, Commissioner

Valentin Pechnikov

as Petr Sergeevich Ivanov

Evgeniy Leonov-Gladyshev

as Simon Bondarenko

Svetlana Sukhovey

as Natalia Bondarenko, wife of Semyon, radio operator

Alexey Borzunov

as Petrenko, lieutenant

Pavel Kormunin

as Ignat Osyka

Lyudmila Polyakova

as Claudia Gerasimovna, chairman of the collective farm

Anatoliy Solovyov

as Zakhar Petrovich

Михаил Турченков

as Mishka Turchenkov

Yura Kasatkin

as Alyosha, grandson of Matvey Egorovich

Boris Bibikov

as grandfather Misha

Vera Kuznetsova

as Misha's grandmother

Aleksandr Lukyanov

as Andrey Lukyanov, sailor

Nikolay Polishchuk

as Sasha Polishchuk, sailor

Vladimir Samoylov

as Ermolaev

Vsevolod Safonov

as Sadovnikov

Viktor Shulgin

as Victor Sergeevich Khvat

Konstantin Zheldin

as Kurt Schmidt

Raisa Kurkina

as Anna Andreevna, wife of Mlynsky

Vladimir Ferapontov

as soldier with balalaika

Boris Yurchenko

as Yurchenko, scout

Mikhail Rozanov

as partisans

Anvar Boranbaev

as Beisembaev

Mariya Skvortsova

as Grandma Anastasia

Elena Volskaya

as Fenya

Nikolai Gorlov

as German von Horne headquarters officer

Evgeniy Markov

as German von Horne headquarters officer

Aleksandr Lebedev

as Sokirka, partisan

Nikolai Yudin

as grandfather

Feliks Yavorsky

as intelligence chief

Vladimir Lippart

as wounded soldier

Nikolay Smorchkov

as partisan sailor

Viktor Volkov

as tankman

Hannjo Hasse

as Colonel General von Horn

Jürgen Frohriep

as Colonel Kempe

Harry Pietzsch

as Standartenfuhrer Karl Wolf

Horst Schulze

as general

Filimon Sergeyev

as episode

Valeri Anisimov

as офицер штаба