Acting
Tashkov's Sashka—part charming rogue, part terrified boy
Direction
Surin walks the razor's edge of Soviet war film conventions
Director
Aleksandr Surin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during the dying Brezhnev era, this sneaked past censors by framing its anti-heroism through comedy.
The scene where Sashka 'borrows' a tank to impress Zina—pure chaos that somehow doesn't get him shot.
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