In the fall of 1938, three former fighters of the international brigade — russian Shukhov, frenchman Henri and american Liz — fall into a resort town on the border of Spain and France. Having met a nurse who is supposed to send Spanish children to Corsica, they decide to help her. However, a fascist rebellion suddenly breaks out in the city, and the children are held hostage to criminals.
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Juozas Budraitis Tatyana Sidorenko Aleksandr Lazarev Valentina Ignatyeva Sergey Bondarchuk Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy Nikolay Kryuchkov Algimantas Masiulis Viktor Sergachyov Yuriy Yakovlev Igor Vasilev Lev Polyakov Viktor Filippov Irina Skobtseva Aleksandr Vokach Andrei Beloruchev Alena Bondarchuk Gerasim Lisitsyan Yuriy Mochalov Inna Ulyanova Dušan Janićijević
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