White Explosion (Russian: Белый взрыв) is a 1969 Soviet historical action war film directed by Stanislav Govorukhin.
[1][2] The film takes place in 1942, when Soviet climbers saved the inhabitants of the Caucasus foothills by sacrificing themselves.
[3] In 1942, during the Great Patriotic War, the soldiers of the Third Reich's Edelweiss mountain division occupy a strategic position in the Caucasus mountains, from which they fire on Soviet refugees and wounded Red Army soldiers crossing the ridge.
Lieutenant Artem Arsenov (Armen Dzhigarkhanyan) devises a daring plan to climb to the summit and detonate the snow cap, triggering an avalanche to strike the German positions.
For the mission, he assembles a group of six people, including both experienced mountaineers and novices.