Trial on the Road
A Soviet POW joins the partisan guerrillas and proves his loyalty fighting the Germans. December 1942. Wearing a German uniform, a former Red Army soldier, Sergeant Alexander Ivanovich Lazarev, volunt…
Trial on the Road
A Soviet POW joins the partisan guerrillas and proves his loyalty fighting the Germans. December 1942. Wearing a German uniform, a former Red Army soldier, Sergeant Alexander Ivanovich Lazarev, voluntarily gives himself up to the Soviet partisans. However, knowing that he had previously defected to the Germans, Commander Lokotkov and Commissar Petushkov decide to give Lazarev a chance to clear his name, putting his loyalty to the test through a series of operations in Mother Russia's dangerous, snow-covered roads. In the end, is Lazarev a traitor or a patriot? —Nick Riganas Film is set in the winter of 1942 during the German occupation of Russia in World War II. Partisan guerrillas, headed by Ivan Lokotkov, are testing the POW Lazarev, who briefly collaborated with the Germans for survival. Lazarev is not executed, but instead he is given a chance to prove his loyalty. He has to go back to the German controlled railway station, where everyone knows him, and to hijack a train with food supplies. Lazarev proves himself a hero. —Steve Shelokhonov
Trial on the Road
Drama,War
Film Details
A Soviet POW joins the partisan guerrillas and proves his loyalty fighting the Germans. December 1942. Wearing a German uniform, a former Red Army soldier, Sergeant Alexander Ivanovich Lazarev, voluntarily gives himself up to the Soviet partisans.
However, knowing that he had previously defected to the Germans, Commander Lokotkov and Commissar Petushkov decide to give Lazarev a chance to clear his name, putting his loyalty to the test through a series of operations in Mother Russia's dangerous, snow-covered roads. In the end, is Lazarev a traitor or a patriot? —Nick Riganas Film is set in the winter of 1942 during the German occupation of Russia in World War II. Partisan guerrillas, headed by Ivan Lokotkov, are testing the POW Lazarev, who briefly collaborated with the Germans for survival.
Lazarev is not executed, but instead he is given a chance to prove his loyalty. He has to go back to the German controlled railway station, where everyone knows him, and to hijack a train with food supplies. Lazarev proves himself a hero.
—Steve Shelokhonov.