Surrounded by a few party officials, Alexei Ivanov, a stakhanovist smelter, is decorated by Stalin. The "Little Father of the Peoples" takes this opportunity to invoke threats of war.... One day, war indeed breaks out. Bombs fall on the field where Alexei finds himself in the company of the schoolmistress Natacha, his fiancée. Alexei joins the Red Army and soon becomes a sergeant. Fighting rages and German troops advance. Natacha is arrested and deported. But the tide turns decisively with the German defeat at Stalingrad. Now the major offensive against Hitler can begin.
as Marshal Iosef Visarionovic Stalin
as Party official
as Party official
as Factory Superintendent Kumchinsky
as MRs Ivanov - Alexei's mother
as Gen. Chujkov
as Gen. Rokossovsky
as Gen. Ivan Koniev
as Gen. Antonov
as Gen. Krebs
as General Brauchitsch
as Aleksey Ivanov
as British Prime Minister Winston Churchill
as Adolf Hitler
as Natasha Rumanyova Vasilnyeva
as Eva Braun
as Hermann Goering
as Gen. Sokolovsky
as Sgt. Yegorov
as General Shtemenko
as Gen. Alfred Jodl
as Linge
as Bulganin
as Geman in Subway
as Pilot
as Passenger
as U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
as General Vasilyevsky
as Marshal Georgi Zhukov
as General Gerd von Runstedt
as Molotov
as Kalinin
as Kaganovich
as Sgt. Kantiariya