The Dawns Here Are Quiet (Russian: А зори здесь тихие, romanized: A zori zdes tikhie) is a 1972 Soviet war drama directed by Stanislav Rostotsky based on Boris Vasilyev's novel of the same name.

The film deals with antiwar themes and focuses on a garrison of Russian female soldiers in World War II.

It then shifts to summer 1942, in the same area, in the midst of World War II some ways behind the Soviet frontlines on the Eastern Front.

Having asked for soldiers who don't drink alcohol and fraternize with women, Company Sergeant Major Vaskov is unexpectedly assigned a group of young female anti-aircraft gunners in a railway station far from the front line.

During an air raid, one of the girls, junior sergeant Rita Osyanina, shoots down an enemy aircraft and is decorated for her deeds.

One day, Rita, having secretly carried rations to her family during the night, comes across two German paratroopers on her way back to the garrison.

His soldiers come up with the idea to bluff the paratroopers into thinking that there are a lot of civilians in their path, by cutting down trees and lighting fires, which will cause the Germans to change direction.

Vaskov is shot in the arm but manages to escape from the Germans—realizing that the reinforcements have not come, he hallucinates about Lisa, who tells him that she failed because she went too fast, drowning in the wet marshland.

The desperate Vaskov, armed only with a knife, one shot in his revolver and a grenade without a fuze, returns to the cabin where the Germans are resting from their wounds.

By stabbing a soldier, shooting another and bluffing with the grenade, he captures a submachine gun and forces the remaining Germans to drop their weapons.

Director Stanislav Rostotskiy promised himself to make a movie about women in the war after a tank ran over him on the battlefield, and an unknown soldier and a nurse Anna Chugunova saved his life.

26-year-old Andrey Martynov convincingly played the role of foreman Fedot Vaskov (who, according to the text of the book, was 32 years old) and looked much more mature on the screen than his age.

The Karelian Isthmus is pitted with craters and showered with fragments of guns of all calibers and ranges, and decades later the war still echoed in these places.

In Soviet cinema of that period, such explicit filming of a naked female body was very rarely allowed, but the director of the picture pursued certain artistic goals.

He explained the essence of the scene to the actresses (who had to be persuaded to undress in front of the camera) this way: "Girls, I need to show where the bullets are gonna go.