RFW 2019: Convoy 48

Based on a true story the film is about several young women in the setting of one of the most large-scale and vital battles of the Second World War – the defence of Leningrad. Only yesterday they were ordinary girls, young and carefree friends from one neighbourhood. They had bright dreams about life and the future, but they could not even think of becoming heroines that saved their native city. Recent high school graduates, they survived the horrible blockade winter of 1941-1942 and were assigned to the 48th Convoy of the newly build secret railway, operation of which was even more dangerous than fighting at the front. Nicknamed as “Death corridor,” it would connect the city with the mainland.

Genre: Drama, war, history

Director: Fedor Popov

Cast: Igor Yasulovich, Artyom Melnichuk, Anastasia Tsibizova

Russia, 2019

In Russian with English subtitles.