The autumn of 1941. Leningrad is besieged by the Nazis. A new model of tank is being developed at a large defense plant. Built in the shortest possible time combat vehicles are tested directly on battlefields, fighting with fascists in the outskirts of the city. The first feature film about the heroic everyday life of city defenders was shot directly in assembly shops of plants and in the streets of Leningrad when the city was fighting against the enemy

Cast

Boris Babochkin

Rodionov the son, an engineer

Tamara Makarova

Kovaleva

Nikolai Cherkasov

Rodionov the father, a worker

Aleksandr Khvylya

Pronin, an engineer

Pyotr Kirillov

Krasnosheev

Vasilii Zaichikov

Party Committee Secretary

Petr Aleinikov

Grisha, a driver

Boris Blimov

Bondarets, a sailor

Nikolai Dubinskii

Vlasov

N. Mitrushenko

Serezhka