[1] In the year of its release it won the Grand Prize at the 1st Moscow International Film Festival.

[2] With the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, driver Andrei Sokolov has to part with his family.

Sokolov endures the hell of a Nazi concentration camp, but thanks to his courage he avoids execution and finally escapes from captivity behind the front line to his own.

After the war, the lonely Sokolov works as a truck driver away from his native places - in Uryupinsk (Stalingrad Oblast).

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