The Dawns Here are Quiet (2DVD)

This dramatic story of women in the war has won numerous international prizes and awards. The action takes place during the Great Patriotic War (1941-1945). Russian Karelia, the autumn of 1941. Five anti-aircraft gunner girls, who are mostly under twenty years old, and their commander, Sergeant Vaskov, discover that a German subversive detachment has landed in this, still far-removed from the front line, locale. The information must be delivered to the headquarters. However, the saboteurs have broken communications, cutting off the small group from their own people and leaving them no hope of getting any help. The enemy endeavors to further penetrate into the rear of the Soviet army on a mission to destroy a number of essential facilities. Vaskov and the five girls accept battle, being outnumbered by sixteen Fascists, armed to the teeth...

original title: A zori zdes tihije
genre: war drama
director: Stanislav Rostotsky
script: Boris Vassiliev, Stanislav Rostotsky
camera: Vyacheslav Shumsky
music: Kirill Molchanov
Rusland, 1972, Gorky Film Studio

cast: Andrei Martynov, Irina Shevchuk, Olga Ostroumova, Yelena Drapenko, Irina Dolganova

extra's: Video subject «Women’s war» / Interview with actresses Irina Shevchuk, Yelena Drapenko, Yekaterina Markova /Filmographies / Photo album

awards: Memorable prize for competing at the Venice IFF, 1972 / Oscar nomination for the Best Foreign-Language Film, 1972

DVD5 / R2 / 16:9 / B/W
running time: 160 min.
sound: Dolby 2.0
spoken language: (original) Russian, (optional) English, French
subtitles: Dutch, Russian, English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Hebrew, Swedish, Chinese, Arabic, Japanese.