The Dawns Here Are Quiet

Plot

Sergeant major Vaskov and five young antiaircraft gunwomen confront a group of experienced saboteurs, who are sent by the Nazis into a railway junction, which is far from the frontline, but is of strategic importance. Vaskov and the women will have to prevent the sabotage, but pay the highest price for it…

Cast

Pyotr Fyodorov — foreman Fedot Evgrafovich Vaskov, commandant of the junction

Anastasia Mikulchina — junior sergeant Rita Osyanina, squad leader

Yevgenia Malakhova — Zhenya Komelkova

Agniya Kuznetsova — Sonya Gurvich

Sofia Lebedeva — Liza Brichkina

Kristina Asmus — Galya Chetvertak

Ekaterina Vilkova — senior sergeant Kiryanova

Anatoliy Beliy — comrade "Third", major

Darya Moroz — Mary, the landlady of the foreman

Victor Proskurin — postman Makarych

Maksim Drozd — Alexei Luzhin, beloved Komelkova

Alexey Barabash — guest of the Brichkins

Olga Lomonosova — mother of Chetvertak

Ilya Alekseyev — lieutenant-border guard Osyanin, husband of Rita

Natalya Batrak — mother of Osyanina

Valeriy Grishko — father Brichkina

Yevgenia Ulyanova — mother of Brichkina

Sergey Vidineyev — father of Komelkova

Yulia Silayeva — mother of Komelkova

Alina Babak — Nadya, the younger sister of Zhenya Komelkova

Yelena Medvedeva — Vera Iosifovna, mother of Sonya Gurvich

Ilya Yermolov — son of Sonya Gurvich

Vasilisa Kucherenko — young Galya Chetvertak

Alesya Guzko — young Liza Brichkina

Yulia Polynskaya — the woman with washload

Nadezhda Azorkina — Polina Yegorovna Yegorova

Maksim Dromashko — NKVD lieutenant

Yevgeniy Kostin — antiaircraft gunner

Yulia Kuykka — antiaircraft gunner

Archibald Archibaldovich (Artur Yenikeyev) — German saboteur

Nina Krachkovskaya - episodic role

Sergei Garmash — the narrator

Television version

An extended version made out of four 45 minute episodes was released on Channel One Russia, on 9 May 2016.