A Russian Youth

A teenage soldier in World War I—a simple village boy with a naive youthful dream of fame and medals—throws himself into the unknown and goes blind in the first battle, thus taking on a new job: intercepting enemy planes by listening to the air through huge metal funnels.

Top Cast

Vladimir Korolyov

Private Aleksei

Mikhail Buturlov

Private Nazarka

Artyom Leshchik

Non-Commissioned Officer Makar Petrovich

Danil Tyabin

Soldier-Sanitarian

Sergei Goncharenko

Lieutenant