Fire (1974)

Director
Vitali Chetverikov

Main cast
Yuri Kayurov; Leonid Nevedomsky; Mikhail Gluzskiy; Vladimir Kozel; Yevgeni Shutov

Genres
War, Drama

Description
A story about an events occurred in Belarus in 1944 during the WWII.


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