The Hot Snow

The Hot Snow

1972 · 105 min · RU · 7.4 (21 votes)
Dir. Gavriil Egiazarov · Starring Georgi Zhzhyonov, Anatoliy Kuznetsov, Vadim Spiridonov, Boris Tokarev, Nikolay Eryomenko, Tamara Sedelnikova · Music Alfred Schnittke
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In November, 1942, near the Volga, Stanlingrad is under siege of Commander Friederich Paulus and his 330,000 men. The Russian high command unleashes an operation to protect the Mishkova River to avoid that about four hundred tanks join Paulus' army. The Soviet artillery soldiers protect their position with their lives in a bloodshed with few survivors.