4 real historical locations · Russia
A 1975 Soviet epic based on Mikhail Sholokhov's unfinished novel, following a battered Red Army regiment defending a Don River crossing during the German summer offensive of 1942. A tribute to ordinary Soviet soldiers in the tradition of socialist realism.
CinemaMapped has mapped 4 real historical locations where the story takes place, spanning Russia.
The 1975 Soviet epic, based on Mikhail Sholokhov's novel, follows a rifle regiment's last survivors fighting a desperate rearguard action on the Don River st...
The summer of 1942 saw German forces advance to the Don and Volga rivers in Operation Blue. Soviet units fell back under catastrophic pressure before Stalin's Order No. 227 — 'Not one step back' — issued in July 1942....
View location →A Soviet rifle regiment fights desperate rearguard actions along the Don River during the German summer offensive of 1942, retreating toward Stalingrad while...
Case Blue (Operation Fall Blau), the German summer offensive of 1942, drove Soviet forces back to the Don and Volga. The Soviet retreat order 'Not One Step Back' (Order 227) was issued in this period.
View location →The regiment's retreat ends at the Volga bluffs above Stalingrad — the line beyond which there is nothing but the river. Here the Soviet soldier stops retrea...
The film is based on Mikhail Sholokhov's unfinished 1943 novel and was directed by Sergei Bondarchuk. It was the last major Soviet war film of the classic era, released in 1975.
View location →The regiment marches across the flat Kuban steppe under Stuka attack, the vast open landscape giving the German air superiority nowhere to hide. The Bondarch...
The Kuban region was critical to German plans: its oil fields and agricultural land were primary objectives of Case Blue. The Kuban Bridgehead battles (1943) saw massive Soviet-German fighting.
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