Based on real events. November 1943. The Nazis bring a new batch of Soviet orphans to Vyritsa, where a so-called "children's shelter" is set up in a former pioneer camp. The conditions here are unbearable: cold, hunger, forced labor, a punishment cell for disobedience, and execution for attempting to escape. But the worst thing is that children are used as blood donors for wounded Germans. Despite all the horror and inconceivability of what is happening, having united, the young heroes find the strength and courage to resist and decide to escape.
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Cast
Karina Andolenko
Kokoshkina
Petar Zekavica
Fabro
Andrey Rudyka
Vityok
Eva Williams
Tonya
Leonid Gromov
Gerasim
Aleksei Nilov
elder Timofey
Mark Alexandrov
Grishka
Lyudmila Yulova
Veta
Sergey Zharkov
lieutenant Livanov
Kseniya Popova-Penderetskaya
Inga
Tatyana Rasskazova
Elena Mikhailovna Ershovskaya
Daniil Rubashevsky
Stepka the stoker
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