Batallions Ask for Fire
(1985)
★ 7.9 IMDb · 327 votes
Year: 1985
Runtime: 285 min
Country: Soviet Union
Director: Александр Боголюбов, Владимир Чеботарёв
Cast: Александр Збруев, Вадим Спиридонов, Олег Ефремов, Александр Галибин, Игорь Скляр
Plot
A story of a several days of intense fighting on the Eastern Front during one of the Soviet offensives in WWII.
Two battalions of the 85th Rifle Regiment under the command of Major Bulbanyuk and Captain Maksimov should force the Dnepr in order to create a bridgehead in the area of the villages of Novomikhaylovka and Belokhatka for the subsequent attack of the division - this was the combat mission. The battalions were ordered: having strengthened themselves on the bridgehead and started a battle, to signal the "ask for fire" division - and all the division artillery would strike at the enemy, and the division itself would go on the offensive after artillery preparation.