Miles of Fire
1957 · 85 min · ★ 5.2 · Action, War, History, Adventure
Civil War. Southern steppes of Russia. Circumstances bring together various people: the Chekist, professor, actor, nurse and White Guard officer posing as a vet. On two tachanka's they make their way into the city.
Directed by Samson Samsonov · Written by Nikolai Figurovsky
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Ivan Savkin Grigory Zavragin -
Margarita Volodina Katya -
Mikhail Troyanovsky Dr. Shelako -
Antoni Khodursky Orlinsky -
Vladimir Kenigson Beklemishev -
Evgeni Burenkov Varyokha -
Viktor Stepanov Proshka - A Anatoliy Osmolskiy Alyosha Roslavlev
- S Sergey Pryanishnikov Old man Egor
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Nikita Kondratyev Afonya - A Aleksandr Karpov
- V Viktor Matisen
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