A fake doctor, real guns, and the ballsiest hospital in Nazi-occupied Ukraine.
Autumn 1941. In a Nazi POW camp near Kyiev, a person claiming to be a doctor appears. He convinced Germans to set up a hospital. Raising no suspicions in Germans, he supplied prisoners with weapons and helped them to escape.
Acting
Filippenko's unblinking nerve under German scrutiny.
Direction
Salynsky wrings 79 minutes into pure sustained dread.
Production
Soviet-era realism: no hero music, just mud and fear.
Director
Dmitry Salynsky
Aleksandr Filippenko
Leonid Zhilin, head of the hospital
Andrei Boltnev
Alexey Danilovich Volsky, military doctor
Olga Ostroumova
Anna Zhilina
Vasili Funtikov
Gena Zhilin
Irina Shmeleva
Irina Zhilina
Григорий Кочержинский
Miron Kandel, surgeon
Aleksey Zolotnitskiy
Strigushchenko
Svetlana Tormakhova
Petrykina
Alevtina Rumyantseva
Frosya, the nurse
Yana Druz
Oksana
Valentina Klyagina
Zina
Sergei Desnitsky
Bogoroditsky, Colonel
Vladimir Zemlyanikin
Golyba
Nikolai Prokopovich
Gerlach, the commandant
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during perestroika when Soviet cinema finally allowed complex, flawed heroes instead of mythic partisans.
Based on the true story of Alexey Volsky, who actually ran Hospital 7 in Syrets camp and saved hundreds before his capture and execution.
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