

196 minutes
2/2/1990
In January 1942, Adolf Hitler appoints Fedor von Bock to command Army Group South and supervise Operation Blau. The German forces advance in the south of Russia, scattering the Soviets and approaching Stalingrad, that seems on the verge of falling to the enemy's hands. The movie ends with Vasily Chuikov assuming command of the 62nd Army at September.

Mikhail Ulyanov
as Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov

Archil Gomiashvili
as Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin

Sergey Nikonenko
as Alexander Ilyich Rodimtsev

Boris Nevzorov
as Nikolai Ivanovich Krylov

Bruno Frejndlikh
as Boris Mikhailovich Shaposhnikov

Liubomiras Laucevičius
as Kuzma Akimovich Gurov

Yelena Tonunts
as Episode

Yuri Kuzmenko
as Warrior

Fyodor Bondarchuk
as Ivan

Powers Boothe
as Vasily Ivanovich Chuykov

Fernando Allende
as Ruben Ibarruri

Valeri Tsvetkov
as Andrey Ivanovich Eremenko
Achim Petry
as Adolf Hitler

Ronald Lacy
as Winston Churchill

Vadim Lobanov
as Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev

Günter Junghans
as Harro Schulze-Boysen

Sergey Garmash
as Yakov Fedotovich Pavlov

Andrey Smolyakov
as Leonid Khrushchev

Oksana Fandera
as Natasha

Oksana Fomichyova
as Vera

Oleg Utkin
as Vasya

Olga Lebedeva
as Nadia

Larisa Shakhvorostova
as Lyuba

Nikolay Kryuchkov
as old captain

Aleksandr Goloborodko
as Konstantin Konstantinovich Rokossovsky

Evgeni Burenkov
as Alexander Mikhailovich Vasilevsky

Nikolay Zasukhin
as Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov

Vladimir Troshin
as Kliment Efremovich Voroshilov

Vyacheslav Yezepov
as Shcherbakov
T. Goladze
as Beria

Alexander Kudinov
as Nemtsov

Roman Grekov
as Korolev
Oleg Uryumtsev
as Costerin

Gerbert Dmitriev
as Lopatin
Boris Levkovich
as Hermann
Siegfried Foss
as Paulus
Ernst Heise
as Von Bock
Erich Thiede
as Himmler
Gerd Michael Henneberg
as Keitel
Helmut Helstorf
as Halder
Karel Weirjik
as Panziger
Herbert Sturm
as Gearing

Horst Schulze
as Erich Schulze

Valentin Golubenko
as Head of Stalin's Security

Valdas Mykolas Jatautis
as member of the British delegation
Vitali Rosstalnoy
as Semyon Konstantinovich Timoshenko