There Was the War

Directed by Aleksey Feoktistov

With Aleksey Panin, Aleksei Buldakov, Boris Klyuyev, Viktor Proskurin and Vladimir Belyakovskiy

June 1941. Two young village boys are taken by surprise by the outbreak of war. One of them receives a summons to the draft board, although he is not at all eager to go to the front. Another boy, an ardent Komsomol member goes to the militia voluntarily. Accelerated military courses, broken first love - and a platoon of militia with our friends find themselves on the edge of the impending German armada ... The test by fire will show who is who ...