A Span of Land
1964, Russian. Directed by Andrey Smirnov & Boris Yashin.
The film is about the hot war summer of 1944. A group of several gun crews defends a tiny bridgehead on the right bank of the Dniester. The fates of the main characters: the front-line soldier-battalion commander Babin, the young lieutenant Motovilov, the nurse Rita Tamashova and the rank-and-file gunners, soldiers, among whom are brave people, faint-hearted and scoundrels, unnoticed heroes, are shown in a setting of several hours of peaceful life before another violent attack of the enemy, after which not everyone will survive...
- Runtime
- 1h 23m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Russian
- Rated
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Cast & crew
- Andrey SmirnovDirector
- Boris YashinDirector
- Aleksandr ZbruevAleksandr Motovilov
- Elliya SukhanovaRita Tamashova
- Evgeniy UrbanskiyAlexei Babin
- Sergei KurilovBryl
- Mikhail VorontsovAfanasy Makletsov
- Aleksandr TitovShumilin
- Viktor SuskinSayenko
- Anatoli GolikMezentsev
- Leonid ChubarovSinyukov
- Aleksey ZaytsevKokhanyuk
- Lev DurovSergeant
- Yuri VolyntsevCaptain Yatsenko
Details
- Released
- 21 December 1964
- Original title
- Пядь земли
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Written by
- Grigori Baklanov
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A Span of Land runs 83 minutes (1h 23m).
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A Span of Land isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 21 December 1964. (Checked 13 November 2026.)
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Who directed A Span of Land?
A Span of Land (1964) was directed by Andrey Smirnov and Boris Yashin and stars Aleksandr Zbruev, Elliya Sukhanova, Evgeniy Urbanskiy.