World War II · Film · 1972
The Dawns Here Are Quiet
A zori zdes tikhiye
A gruff sergeant major in the Karelian backwoods takes five young anti-aircraft gunners into the forest to catch two German saboteurs, and finds sixteen.
Where it happened
Follow the story across 1 places.
Stop 1: Railway siding in Karelia
Key location
Vaskov's quiet post fills with young women gunners; one of them spots two German paratroopers in the woods and the hunt begins.
What really happened
Based on Boris Vasilyev's 1969 novella, the story is set in 1942 behind the Karelian front, where the Kirov Railway to Murmansk carried Allied Lend-Lease supplies and was a constant target of German and Finnish raiders. Small anti-aircraft detachments guarded sidings and bridges along the line.
More than 800,000 Soviet women served in the armed forces during the war, many of them as anti-aircraft gunners freeing men for the front. The five heroines and their battle are fictional, but Vasilyev drew on stories of women's units, and the film became one of the most loved Soviet war dramas.
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Full details
- Original title
- A zori zdes tikhiye
- Directed by
- Stanislav Rostotsky
- Countries
- Russia
- Languages
- Russian, German
- Released
- 1972
- Period
- –
- Theaters of war
- Eastern Front
- Themes
- Combat
