Last Salvos

Last Salvos

1961 · 91 min · ★ 8.0 · War, Drama

In the Carpathians during 1945, near the borders with Czechoslovakia, the last battles are going on. No one expects major military operations on this sector of the front. Peaceful life ahead. The German group, leaving the encirclement, is rapidly heading towards the city of Maritsa, where the Slovak partisans have just entered. Captain Novikov's small artillery battery receives an order to stop the German tanks at all costs...

Directed by Lev Saakov · Written by Yuri Bondarev

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