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.

Billed Cast

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