War drama.
The end of 1944, the Great Patriotic War. The peasant Pichugov and his three sons from a small Belarus village that has been liberated from German occupation are called up for military service. The men are immersed in an army division that successfully attacks the West. Corporal Bakhatov, a former supervisor of a camp of political prisoners, fights in the same platoon as the family. Exploiting the naivety and ignorance of the four peasants, the corporal conceives an evil game…
Todorovsky’s fifth film about man in the war.
