A zori zdes tikhie (1970)

TV adaptation based on the eponymous book by 'Boris Vasilyev (I)'. Set in Russia, in 1941, during the Second World War. The Red Army Sergeant Vaskov is stationed at a remote artillery post. Vaskov is in charge of five young women recruited for military training in the Red Army. One day they are surrounded by a group of Nazi paratroopers, who had penetrated into the Russian territory beyond the front-line. Now Vaskov with five women-trainees have to stop the enemy in an unequal fight.