The battalions ask for fire, a story by Yuri Bondarev. “The idea of creating the story “The battalions ask for fire”

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Yuri Bondarev (born March 15, 1924) Born on March 15, 1924 in the city of Orsk, Orenburg Region, in the family of Vasily Vasilyevich Bondarev (1896-1988), a people's investigator, and Klavdiya Iosifovna Bondareva (1900-1978). In 1931 they moved to Moscow. Participant of the Great Patriotic War (since August 1942), junior lieutenant. He graduated from the Chkalov Artillery School and the Literary Institute named after. A. M. Gorky (1951).

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Works: He made his debut in print in 1949. The first collection of stories “On the Big River” was published in 1953. Author of short stories (collection “Late Evening”, 1962), stories “Youth of Commanders” (1956), “Battalions Ask for Fire” (1957; television series “Battalions Ask for Fire” based on the story, 1985), “Last Salvos” (1959; film of the same name, 1961), “Relatives” (1969), novels “Hot Snow” (1969), “Silence” (1962; film of the same name, 1964), “Two” (continuation of the novel “Silence”; 1964), “The Shore” (1975). Author of the script for the film based on the novel “Hot Snow” (1972; State Prize of the RSFSR named after the Vasilyev brothers). One of the co-authors of the script for the epic film “Liberation” (1970; Lenin Prize).

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The battalions ask for fire: “The battalions ask for fire” is Yu. Bondarev’s second work about the war, but his first story in which the talent of the writer was so clearly demonstrated, combining in his works the analysis of the human soul and the understanding of philosophical problems. This is also the very first and most daring work of those years, in which there were no patriotic cries: “Hurray, we won! Long live our great socialist Motherland!” - but there was only the bare truth about the war. For the first time, the question was raised about the means by which this victory was achieved.

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The battalions ask for fire: The plot is based on one of the decisive stages of the Great Patriotic War - the crossing of the Dnieper by Soviet troops. Two battalions were thrown into a disastrous breakthrough on the German-occupied bank of the Dnieper in order to divert enemy forces and thereby facilitate the division’s assault on the strategically important city of the Dnieper. The soldiers were given the order: to hold out until the last.

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Boris Ermakov: Ermakov is one of the commanders of the battalion sent to death. For many hours, the soldiers of this battalion are forced to withstand the onslaught of much superior enemy forces, waiting for artillery support. But the command changed plans, and the battalion is not receiving help. Ermakov is among the soldiers, just like them, participating in the battle.

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Boris Ermakov: Before his eyes he sees not just a battalion, but specific people, specific destinies and feelings. And he experiences their death as the loss of loved ones. With his last efforts, Ermakov tries to lead the remaining soldiers out of the encirclement, but almost all die during this breakthrough. “I am the last of the battalion and left alone... So isn’t this death? And why am I still living when everyone is dead?” - he thinks. Boris Ermakov blames himself for the death of the battalion, and even after returning, his heart continues to ache. Still, he sees the death of people as a mistake by his superiors.

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Zhorka: Adjutant Zhorka Vitkovsky. Zhorka lives “simply and thoughtlessly, like a bird,” and thinks least of all about herself. He does not penetrate into the essence of events, is always calm and cheerful, and just as without hesitation he kills people, shoots a captured Russian soldier who has gone over to the side of the Germans.

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Shura: The female character in the story is nurse Shura. In war, she goes through her test of kindness, love, loyalty, and, perhaps, for her it ends better than for many other heroes.

"The battalions are asking for fire"- a story by Yuri Bondarev, the action of which takes place in Ukraine in 1943. First published in the magazine “Young Guard” in 1957. In 1985, a film of the same name was made based on the story.

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That was the plan. However, soon the command changed the plan of attack, ordering this division to withdraw from its positions, move north of the Dnieper and, joining with another division, which had suffered heavy losses in recent battles, attack the city from the north. The battalions that have already entered the battle are ordered not to retreat - now their actions must be of a distracting nature. The division commander, Colonel Iverzev, urgently recalls all regiments, including artillery, leaving the battalions without fire support, thereby dooming them to certain death... Out of several hundred people, only five will survive, including the main character, Captain Boris Ermakov. Then he will reproach the division commander: “I cannot consider you a man and an officer.”

At the end of the story, at the moment of the attack, when the offensive has stalled, Iverzev, the division commander whose place is at the command post, takes a machine gun and goes to raise the soldiers himself to the attack.

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Episodes of the story were used by Yu. Bondarev in the script of the second film of the epic “Liberation” - “Breakthrough” (1969).
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Yu. Bondarev - the story “The battalions ask for fire.” In the story “Battalions Ask for Fire,” the writer shows at what inhuman cost our victory was achieved. At the center of the story is the fate of two battalions. Two battalions under the command of Major Bulbanyuk and Captain Maksimov were supposed to cross the Dnieper, create a bridgehead in the area of the village of Zolotushino and in the forestry area for the subsequent development of the division’s offensive. The battalions were given the order to start a battle, then give a signal to the division - “we ask for fire.” After which the divisional artillery was supposed to strike the enemy. To support the battalions during the battle, two guns were allocated under the command of Captain Ermakov and a battery of Lieutenant Zharov.

However, during the fighting, the command's plans changed. The division, which was supposed to support the battalions with fire, was ordered to withdraw from combat positions and link up with another division. As a result, the division commander, Colonel Iverzev, recalls all regiments, leaving the battalions without fire support, which dooms them to certain death. The battalions signal for fire support, but it does not come. Captain Ermakov joins the battalion of Bulbanyuk, who was seriously wounded. Together with Senior Lieutenant Orlov, Ermakov takes command of the battalion. Soon everyone realizes that the battalion is doomed. Orlov and some of the fighters die. Ermakov leads his surviving people out of the encirclement.

In the second part of the story we see a number of excellently written battle scenes, interspersed with an analysis of the characters’ state of mind. “I tried to create a picture of the battle from the various feelings of the characters in the story,” notes the author. “To show how people fought and died in different moods and at the most crucial moment of testing their courage.” And the writer was able to achieve his goal. Here Orlov gives the order to the machine gunner to change position more often, he shouts, his voice breaks, then he himself lies down behind the anti-tank rifle, misses three times, returns the soldier trying to get out of the trenches. Zhora Vitkovsky uses a captured machine gun to destroy the German infantry; a young lieutenant Eroshin rushes to the aid of the remnants of the battalion, but dies under air bombing.

Captain Ermakov blames himself for the death of his soldiers: “I commanded a battalion and was left alone. Isn't this death? So why am I still living when everyone is dead? Ermakov also considers Colonel Iverzev, the division commander, to be guilty of the death of the battalion. And he blames the division commander for the deaths. In the novel, Iverzev thinks about the fate of the entire operation, Ermakov - about specific people. Thus, Yu. Bondarev touches on the most important social and moral problem in the story - the relationship between the norms of law and morality. And the author does not have a clear answer to this question. He seems to invite the reader to think.

Both of these images (Captain Ermakov and Divisional Commander Iverzev) are depicted in close-up in the story. Captain Ermakov is a courageous man, decisive, straightforward, and practically not prone to reflection. He throws the accusation in the face of the division commander, without thinking about the consequences. This is what his conscience, the concept of officer honor, tells him to do. And he is arrested. Then he is released and presented for a reward. However, the image of Colonel Iverzev in the story is quite complex. At first glance, he seems to be a harsh, tough person. The author conveys this already in the portrait of the hero. “Colonel Iverzev, ruddy, fair-haired, with cold blue eyes, dressed in a beautifully tailored steel-colored jacket, looked firmly and harshly at Boris and said in a rich voice: “You’re late, Captain Ermakov!”

Listening to the division commander, Ermakov drew attention to his hand, clenched into a fist, and thought that “this fist is mercilessly strong, power-hungry, unyielding...” Divisional commander Iverzev knows that he is right, because he guessed the enemy’s plan and thwarted it. But when he is left alone with himself, this consciousness of his own rightness does not save him from painful thoughts and reproaches of conscience. Having seen off Gulyaev and Ermakov, he, “pale, as if immediately flabby,” walks around the room, “clasping his trembling fingers behind his back.” “Punching, almost physical pain” does not leave him. Ermakov’s feelings and thoughts are clear to him. “Behind this officer stood his own truth, the truth of responsibility for the death of the battalion, and behind him, Iversev, stood an even greater truth - responsibility for the entire division.” At the end of the novel, Iverzev rouses the soldiers to attack, is wounded in the arm, then he asks to present the dead and surviving soldiers, including Captain Ermakov, for a reward.

Thus, the story defined Yu. Bondarev’s approach to depicting a person in war, perceiving it from the inside: with the eyes, mind, and heart of a soldier shooting from a machine gun. This is a person undergoing, as the author puts it, “a test of humanity through the test of fire.” All the characters in the story go through this test; war becomes a test of a person’s moral qualities.

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Yuri Bondarev is often called a writer of the war generation, a front-line writer: back in August 1942, he, an eighteen-year-old boy, volunteered for the front. From the Volga to the border of the Czech Republic, through Ukraine and Poland, his long military road as an artillery officer ran, a road of difficult battles and joyful victories, a road of gains and losses, a life-long road. And therefore the theme of war became the main one in his work.

Yuri Bondarev is known as the author of wonderful stories and novels about the Great Patriotic War; it is enough to recall his works such as “Battalions Ask for Fire”, “Last Salvos”, “Hot Snow”. This theme became one of the main ones in his later works - the novels “The Shore” and “Choice”. We can say that the war passed through the writer’s heart and remained in him forever.

Many modern authors have written, are writing and will continue to write about the Great Patriotic War. This topic is inexhaustible, because everyone writes about their own war, which they have seen only. The memory of the war lives in the hearts of people, including in the hearts of writers: prose writers, poets, playwrights... Let us remember the works of Konstantin Simonov, Alexander Tvardovsky, Boris Vasiliev, Vasil Bykov, Vitaly Zakrutkin, Anatoly Ananyev, Alexander Bek and many, many others . Each of them has their own idea of war, their own truth of war.

But the works of Yuri Bondarev cannot be confused with any other work. Bondarev managed to say his own word about the war and the feat of the people, which was not similar to what had already been said before him. His stories and novels are works not only and not so much about the feat of the people, but works about the feat of a Man, a Soldier, who defended the country with his chest. The war is shown to them through the perception of a simple participant in battles: a private, a sergeant, a lieutenant... This is a view from the front line, from a trench, and this makes the events described especially reliable.

Among the many bright, beautiful works of Yuri Bondarev, the story “Battalions Ask for Fire” makes a great impression. This is one of the very first works of the writer devoted to the theme of war, in it the war is shown extremely truthfully, it captures all the bitter truth of war: we see the war as the writer’s keen vision sees it, and we see it not from an observation point distant from the battlefield, but directly from the front line, from a firing position, from a trench. The reader, along with the heroes, participates in the battle, wipes the sweat from his face with valuable gunpowder fumes, examines his overcoat, pierced by bullets, remembers the crazy attack in the evening, burning German tanks, dead comrades...

The title of the story is very simple - it is a common phrase from one of the heroes of the work. But the choice of its name contains a deep meaning: behind this everyday statement lies the author’s position - to show not the ceremonial side of the war, but its inner essence: the everyday, ordinary feat of Russian soldiers.

The plot of the story is outwardly extremely simple: two battalions of a division commanded by Colonel Iverzev. it is necessary to break through the defenses south of the city of Dnieper, occupy the villages of Novo-Mikhailovka and Belokhatka and, holding them, create the impression among the Germans that the main blow of the division will be delivered in this direction, while in reality its main forces were aimed north of the Dnieper. The division's artillery regiment was supposed to support the battalions of Major Bulbanyuk and Captain Maksimov with fire, but during the battles the situation developed in such a way that all of the regiment's artillery had to be transferred to the northern bridgehead, where constant German counterattacks threatened to disrupt the entire planned operation, and the battalions on the southern bridgehead were left without fire support. They fought to the last bullet, fought heroically, but were surrounded and almost completely died in an unequal battle.

It would seem that there is nothing particularly interesting in this plot: this is one of the ordinary episodes of the great war, of which there were thousands and thousands over four long years... But it is in this choice that the main feature of the writer’s work lies: he is able to see the great in the ordinary, in everyday - heroic. Bondarev never embellishes or glorifies the war, he shows it exactly as it really was. He is a realist in his depiction of war, and the writer's realism is somewhat reminiscent of Leo Tolstoy's realism in his depiction of the Battle of Borodino.

Just like Tolstoy’s heroes, the main characters of Yuri Bondarev’s story are “little great people.” Major Bulbanyuk, Captain Ermakov, Senior Lieutenant Orlov, Lieutenant Kondratiev, Sergeant Kravchuk, Private Sklyar never utter loud words, never take heroic poses and do not strive to get onto the tablets of History. They are simply doing their job - defending their homeland. They simply do their job every day - the difficult, dirty, bloody work of a soldier. And at the same time they do not notice that this is a real feat, because the hero is not only the one who fearlessly rushes into the attack and dies beautifully, but also the one who brings victory closer every day, every hour. This truth, brilliantly simple and eternal, was convincingly proven by Leo Tolstoy on the pages of the novel “War and Peace.”

The heroes of Bondarev’s story, it seems to me, have a lot in common with Tolstoy’s heroes. First of all, it is the “hidden warmth of patriotism.” Both Captain Boris Ermakov, the main character of the story, and all the other heroes of the novel never think about the question of what patriotism is. For them, the Motherland is a concept as if it were self-evident; they have absorbed the feeling of love for the Motherland along with their mother’s milk. And when it became necessary, they went to protect her without hesitation.

Loyalty to duty and oath also unites these people who are so different in appearance, but so similar inwardly. When Bulbanyuk’s battalion was surrounded and literally crushed by the tracks of German tanks, none of the soldiers thought about personal salvation or surrender. Everyone understood: the fate of the entire operation now depended on them, on their courage and perseverance. And the soldiers of the battalion fulfilled their duty to the end, paying with the most precious thing a person has - their lives.

But despite this internal similarity in love for the Motherland, Bondarev’s heroes are completely different people. Each of them has his own past, each has unique character traits, individual characteristics, even the speech of the heroes is different in many ways. We see a leisurely, reasonable, peasantly thorough Bulbanyuk. dashing and reckless Zhorka Vitkovsky, romantic and naive Lieutenant Eroshin, strong-willed and decisive Captain Ermakov, charming Shurochka, cowardly Tsigichko. These heroes become close and understandable to us.

Bondarev's heroes go through a number of tests, including the main test - trial by combat. And it is in battle, on the verge of life and death, that the true essence of each person is revealed. All heroes pass this test with honor. But Captain Ermakov and Colonel Iverzev have different attitudes towards the death of the battalions. It is between them that the main conflict of the story arises. We can say that the work shows two truths - the truth of Ermakov and the truth of Iverzev.

Boris Ermakov accuses the division commander of the death of the battalions, and his accusations sound fair: indeed, battalions left without the support of regimental artillery were doomed to death. Ermakov considers Iverzev a stupid martinet, ready to senselessly send people to certain death in order to carry out orders, ready to sacrifice hundreds of lives for the sake of his career.

Yes, Colonel Iverzev does not make the most favorable impression on us at first. He seems overly harsh towards his subordinates, even cruel and callous mentally. But we know what made him make such a decision - to transfer all the artillery to the northern bridgehead, and therefore we have a more complex attitude towards this hero. We understand that despite all the subjective honesty, Ermakov is not objectively right in everything. We see how Iverzev suffers internally. understanding the harsh necessity of his orders, but at the same time realizing that with these orders he was dooming the battalions of Bulbanyuk and Maximov to death. Iverzev knows that he cannot fail to fulfill the order of the army commander - to take the Dnieper at any cost. And therefore, when the attacking battalion lay under the dagger fire of a German machine gun, he himself raised it to the attack, thinking at that moment not about mortal danger, but about the need to take this line of defense.

The theme of love occupies an important place in the story. Love and war are two concepts that seem incompatible. But life turns out to be more complex than simple concepts. As long as a person lives, he can and should love. Love in the story is a symbol of life, and therefore it is stronger than death. The love of Shurochka and Boris Ermakov illuminates the harsh military reality with a romantic light. The complex relationships between Lieutenant Kondratyev, Shurochka and Ermakov allow us to better understand these heroes.

I would like to finish the story about the story with the fact that people will always remember with gratitude the soldiers who defended our Motherland in the distant years of war; they owe their lives and their future to them. And Yuri Bondarev wrote about these soldiers in his story “Battalions Ask for Fire,” which is a favorite book of many readers.

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Elizbar Karavaev
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"The battalions are asking for fire"- television series based on the story of the same name by Yuri Bondarev. The film was made for the 40th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War.

The film completely, with only minor differences, reflects the content of the story, in contrast to the previous version - the second series of the film epic “Liberation” (“Breakthrough”) in 1969, which was based on the same story and partially repeats the plot.

It is a known fact that most of the battle scenes were filmed near the village of Malopolovetskoye, Fastovsky district, Ukraine, where entire filming platforms were built on the banks of the Sobot River.

The basis of the film's plot is an important stage of the Great Patriotic War, the crossing of the Dnieper by Soviet troops during the summer-autumn campaign of 1943.

Two battalions of the 85th Infantry Regiment under the command of Majors Bulbanyuk and Maksimov must cross the Dnieper, create a bridgehead in the area of the village of Novomikhailovka, south of the city of Dnieper (fictitious name) for the subsequent development of the division’s offensive (this is how the combat mission was set). The battalions were given an order: having fortified themselves on the bridgehead, starting a battle, give the signal to the division “we ask for fire”, after which all the division artillery was to fire at the enemy. To support the battalions at the time of crossing and starting the battle, two guns from the artillery regiment and two crews of artillerymen with them were allocated, under the command of Lieutenant Eroshin and Captain Ermakov, who, before his injury, commanded the battery of the rifle regiment of Colonel Gulyaev. That was the plan. However, before the offensive, the division was left without ammunition: due to the fault of the rear leadership, the echelons were not unloaded during the short summer night, and the Germans bombed them. The command changes the plan of attack, ordering this division to withdraw from its positions and move north of the Dnieper, where, joining with another division that has suffered heavy losses in recent battles, attack the city from the north. And the battalions that entered the battle were ordered not to retreat; now their actions must be of a distracting nature. The division commander, Colonel Iverzev, fearing to disobey the order of the high command, urgently recalls all regiments, including artillery, leaving the battalions without fire support, which dooms them to certain death. This is the harsh truth of war: the laziness and negligence of some is paid for with the blood of others. To support the battalions on the right bank, only two guns of the same battery remained, which was previously commanded by Ermakov, and after his injury, senior lieutenant Kondratyev became commander. The order for this battery to support the battalions comes late, when both battalions are surrounded. During this time, they had already signaled several times asking for fire, but there was no fire. From the very first minutes of the battle, communication with the battalions was interrupted. Therefore, Kondratiev does not even have accurate information about the location of the battalions in order to open fire. The entire battery is patiently waiting for the order of the regiment commander Gulyaev, as soon as the coordinates are received from the signalmen. Meanwhile, the battalions are surrounded, the Germans are drawing more and more forces into the Novomikhailovka area. The guns assigned to the battalions are destroyed, Lieutenant Eroshin dies, and Captain Ermakov with the remnants of the artillerymen comes to the command post of the Bulbanyuk battalion, ready to command any of the infantry units. The battalion commander Bulbanyuk is seriously wounded, the chief of staff Orlov and captain Ermakov together take command of the battalion. When it becomes obvious that there will be no fire support and there is nowhere to wait for help, both commanders and the wounded Bulbanyuk understand that the battalion is doomed. Then Ermakov orders Colonel Gulyaev’s orderly Zhorka to go through all the trenches and tell the soldiers that the division’s long-awaited offensive began an hour ago. Ermakov agreed to this lie in order to preserve the last hope in the soldiers; with hope it is easier to die. Orlov and a group of fighters retreat to the defensive flank to try to repel the attack of German tanks on the battalion’s position, but the tanks still break through, Orlov and everyone who was with him die. And then Ermakov makes a decision with the remnants of the people (20 people from the entire battalion!) to break out of the encirclement back to the Dnieper. By this point, Bulbanyuk, realizing that his battalion would die and his wound was fatal, shot himself. Meanwhile, battery commander Kondratiev, tired of waiting for orders, asks Colonel Gulyaev for permission to open fire at the old battalion coordinates. At first, Gulyaev does not allow it, fully aware that if the coordinates change, the battery’s fire can cover its own. But at the same time, both he and Konratyev understand that further delay could cost the lives of the last surviving battalion fighters. Kondratiev is ready to take responsibility for the mistake and open fire without orders. At the last moment, Gulyaev still gives this order. The battery fires at the old coordinates and thus helps Maksimov’s battalion. As a result, only four soldiers and captain Ermakov remained from Bulbanyuk’s battalion, who nevertheless led these last survivors out of the encirclement. Immediately after returning to the regiment, Ermakov appears to Colonel Gulyaev, who no longer hoped to see him alive, and demands to be taken to the division commander Iverzev. Arriving at the division commander, Ermakov tells him to his face everything that he thinks about him, who abandoned two battalions to death, calls him a “cracker”, whom he can no longer “consider as a man and an officer.” Ermakov was arrested for insulting a senior officer. But he was not put on trial. After the successful capture of the Dnieper, Colonel Iverzev, who in this battle personally led people into the attack and experienced for himself what it was like to command a battalion, forgave Ermakov and even included him in the list of those nominated for awards, as well as the dead Bulbanyuk and Orlov (posthumously). At the end of the film, Ermakov returns from arrest and at the crossing meets his beloved woman - nurse Shura from Kondratiev's battery. (The battery itself, having opened fire that day to support the battalions, found itself in front of the enemy and was destroyed by German tanks, Kondratiev himself was wounded and sent to the hospital). Final scene: Ermakov and Shura, silently embracing, walk across the bridge over the Dnieper.

Cast

Alexander Zbruev - battery commander captain Ermakov
Oleg Efremov - regiment commander Colonel Gulyaev
Alexander Galibin - battery commander senior lieutenant Kondratyev
Vadim Spiridonov - division commander Colonel Iverzev
Igor Sklyar - orderly Gulyaeva foreman Vitkovsky
Nikolay Karachentsov - Senior Lieutenant Orlov
Elena Popova - nurse Shura
Vladimir Kashpur - battalion commander Major Bulbanyuk
Vyacheslav Baranov - Lieutenant Eroshin
Borislav Brondukov - Sergeant Major Tsygichko
Alexander Feklistov - Sergeant Elyutin
Alexander Abramov - Private Sklyar
Vadim Andreev - Private Derevianko
Vladimir Sklyarov - Private Bobkov
Evgeniy Pashin - Private Luzanchikov
Alexander Pankratov-Cherny - quartermaster major
Yuri Dubrovin - head of the railway station, Major Perov
Gennady Frolov - Colonel Alekseev
Viktor Chebotarev - Major Denisov
Mikhail Mokeev - Lieutenant Katkov
Gennady Korolkov - Lieutenant Colonel Semynin
Larisa Bobenko - mistress of the house
Lyudmila Stoyanova - Lidia Andreevna Iverzeva, wife of Colonel Iverzeva
Les Serdyuk - machine gunner
Vladimir Talashko - Streltsov

Film crew

Directors: Vladimir Chebotarev, Alexander Bogolyubov
Script writers: Yuri Bondarev, Alexander Bogolyubov
Cameramen: Elizbar Karavaev, Roman Veseler
Production designers: Nikolay Saushin, Anatoly Burdo
Composer: Andrey Petrov
Lyrics: Mikhail Matusovsky
Songs performed by: Nikolay Karachentsov
Sound engineer: Mark Bronstein
Editing: Evgenia Andreeva
Military consultant: Kirillov Anatoly Ivanovich, lieutenant general t/v

Differences from the story

In Bondarev's story, Lieutenant Eroshin has the surname Proshin
In the film, the gun commander of the Kondratyev battery, Elyutin, is an artist who constantly draws something, is secretly in love with the nurse Shura, and before his death he confesses this to her. In the book, Elyutin is a watchmaker who repairs watches all the time, and he is only a gunner at the gun. And the commander of the gun is Sergeant Kravchuk, who is not in the film, and it is he who loves Shura and confesses this to her in a similar situation.
An episode was added to the film: the wounded Elyutin (Kravchuk) is transported on a raft across the Dnieper, before sailing, private Luzanchikov gives the soldiers on the raft a folder with Elyutin’s drawings, during the crossing a German shell hits the raft - a direct hit and neither Elyutin, nor even his drawings, anymore No. That's why war is terrible. In the story, nothing is known about the further fate of Kravchuk, and Elyutin dies near the gun.
In the original version of the story, Ermakov was put on trial by a military tribunal with the ensuing consequences, but later Bondarev changed the ending of the story to a happier version. It was the final version of the story that formed the basis of the film.

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