Release Date: 2010

Genre: Drama, War

Running Time: 4 episodes x 45 min

Director: Alexander Kott

Cast: Alexey Kopashov, Andrey Merzlikin, Pavel Derevyanko

Synopsis:

 

June 22nd, 1941 witnessed the first and cruelest Nazi assault of the Soviet Union border - the city of Brest.

No one believed Germany would attack, Stalin and Hitler had a non-aggression pact and the unsettling news from the border was ignored until it was too late.

The film tells a story of heroic self-sacrifice of common citizens in an attempt to defend their home and families.