Fortress (film, 1978)

Autumn of 1944. Adriatic coast of Yugoslavia. Lieutenant Colonel Kalitin receives an order to lead the landing of reconnaissance saboteurs in order to attack the enemy’s fortress.

The fortress is located on the island. There is a small sandy beach, the rest of the coast - almost impregnable cliffs. The island is connected with the mainland by a two-kilometer natural dam. Once there was a monastery, before the war - a fashionable boarding house.

Three artillery batteries, eight towers with coaxial anti-aircraft machine guns, additional machine guns are located on the fortress wall. Around the island a guard boat operates around the clock. The main garrison is located on the mainland, twenty kilometers from the island.

The fortress contains about a hundred people, all of them prominent European scholars who, for various reasons, refused to work for the military. The task of the scout group is to free the prisoners and ensure their evacuation.

The commandant of the garrison, Kalitin’s old acquaintance in the Spanish War, Obersturmbunführer Siegfried Von Erlich, was ready for an attack. It was not possible to pass a dense defense the first time. The forces for the second attack were clearly not enough and the lieutenant colonel decides to enter the fortress with the help of the Yugoslav partisans.

Having replenished the ranks with armed prisoners, scouts made their way to the coast and took up defense, awaiting the arrival of transport aircraft.

The content resembles the film "Guns of the Island of Navaron" 1961

• Emanuel Vitorgan - Lieutenant Colonel Kalitin
• Algimantas Masiulis - Obersturmbanfuhrer Siegfried Von Erlich
• Arnis Licitis - Captain Skvortsov
• Evgeny Gerasimov - Lieutenant Filippov
• Irina Azer - radio operator Lida Ryabtseva
• Paul Butkevich - Christian van der Roye
• Konstantin Konstantinov - Voldemar Burich
• Ion Shchera - Kurt Eberman, engineer of the Krupp concern
• Valeriu Cupcha - Fritz Told
• Uldis Lieldijs - Cream
• Vladimir Msryan - Eduard Dorel
• Yuri Kuzmenko - Lieutenant Bakhmetev
• Vladimir Shakalo - Mikola Marchenko
• Mikhail Milikov - Leva
• Vsevolod Gavrilov - George Burich
• Igor Statsenko - General Lakishev
• Vyacheslav Kutakov - Pershin, camp translator
• Boris Seidenberg - Colonel Zhuravlev
• Regina Mind - Amalia von Erlich
• Peter Baracci - Opitz
• Serju Finiti - Jovan Buric
• A. Boyko - Wagner
• D. Yapunjyan - Ruben Ghazaryan

In the episodes: Alexander Karpenko, Mikhail Kononov, Boris Mironyuk, Mikhail Abramov,
Ion Gorya, Elijah Gutsu, Victor Naimushin, Grigory Russu, P. Yatskovsky

• Script writers: Vasily Pascaru, George Ter-Hovhannesov
• Stage Director: Vasily Pascaru
• Director of photography: Vlad Churya
• Composer: John Ter-Tatevosyan
• Set Designer: Vasily Zachinyaev
• Directors: V. Raileanu, V. Sereda
• Operator: V. Kornilov
• State Symphony Orchestra of Cinematography
  • Conductor: N. Nikolaevsky
• Set Designer: I. Slyusar
• Costume Designer: L. Gilko
• Make-up artist: P. Klimov
• Editor: Elena Yaprintseva
• Editor: E. Chirkova
• Assistant directors: I. Kornilova, E. Lesukova, S. Yanov
• Assistant operators: M. Bytke. K. Kudelsky, V. Mokanu
• Consultant: Major General I. Statsenko
• Director: E. Leht

• In 2010, the film was released as part of the Central Partnership collector's edition from the series “At the Blue Screen” - “Heroes of the Great War. Saboteurs and special forces. " The collection also includes the films “ Live Until Dawn ”, “ I am Khortytsa ” and “ Take Everything We Take ” ^[1] .

• 1979 - 12th All-Union Film Festival in Ashgabat: jury prize for developing an adventure genre. ^[2]

• Krepost on the Internet Movie Database