A band of determined Russian soldiers fight to hold a strategic building in their devastated city against a ruthless German army, and in the process become deeply connected to a Russian woman who has been living there.
| Actor | Role |
|---|---|
 Mariya SmolnikovaKatya | Katya |
 Yanina StudilinaMasha | Masha |
 Pyotr FyodorovKapitan Gromov | Kapitan Gromov |
 Thomas KretschmannKapitan Kan | Kapitan Kan |
 Sergey BondarchukSergey Astakhov | Sergey Astakhov |
 Dmitry LysenkovChvanov | Chvanov |
 Andrey SmolyakovPolyakov | Polyakov |
 Aleksey BarabashNikiforov | Nikiforov |
 Oleg VolkuKrasnov | Krasnov |
 Heiner LauterbachKhenze | Khenze |
 Polina RaykinaNatashka | Natashka |
 Yuriy NazarovGunner | Gunner |
 Petar ZekavicaYurgens | Yurgens |
 Dmitriy KochkinMitya | Mitya |
 Georges DevdarianiKloze | Kloze |
 Philippe ReinhardtGottfried | Gottfried |
 Christoph GawendaOtto | Otto |
 Oksana BazilevichTomka | Tomka |
 Svetlana SvirkoRaya | Raya |
 Nataliya KadochnikovaZoyka | Zoyka |
 Valentin KuznetsovKlyuev | Klyuev |
| RRoman LikhodeevMatros | Matros |
 Aleksandr SuvorovMatros | Matros |
 Ivan DebovMatros | Matros |
 Mikhail BogdanovMatros | Matros |
 Evgeniy LevitskiyChasovoy | Chasovoy |
 Oleg TilkinBelobrysyy saper | Belobrysyy saper |
 Maxim YakovlevThe boy is charging | The boy is charging |
 Kirill VaraksaSukhoy | Sukhoy |
 Nodari DzhanelidzeThe pockmarked sailor | The pockmarked sailor |