Front Without Flanks

Front Without Flanks

1975 · 170 min · ★ 5.5 · War, Drama

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 · Written by Semyon Tsvigun

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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

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