Five partisans, one frozen hell, and a mission that will bury some of them.
Season 1 • Episode 5
LatestA Partisan Saga. Winter of 1942. Ivan Voronetsky, acting as a representative of the Central Committee of the Komsomol of Belarus, is assigned a special mission — along with his team of five.
Direction
Ptashuk's unflinching long takes in actual Belarusian winter.
Production
Period detail so precise you can smell the wet wool.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
A rare Soviet miniseries that escaped heavy censorship by filming during the late Brezhnev thaw, when partisan narratives were politically safe but could still carry subversive humanism.
Yevgeni Gerasimov and Viktor Proskurin were already established stars; their casting lent prestige to a project that otherwise risked being shelved as too grim for state television.
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