It’s 1941 and Soviet tank commander Lieutenant Ivushkin is taken prisoner by the Nazis. The Germans
It’s October 1941 and German troops are advancing on Kalinin (now called Tver), a key strategic point that leads straight to Moscow. The Soviet soldiers and civilians who refuse to flee the city are willing to risk their lives to defend the place. To make things worse, aside from the incoming Nazis, they also need to keep an eye out for German spies operating in Kalinin.
When the entire family of six-year-old Anna are massacred, by some miracle the girl manages to escape. She ends up hiding in an empty room of a German commandant’s house, and if forced to keep low until her village is liberated, but remaining out of sight isn’t easy.
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