The Last Frontier

The Last Frontier also released as The Final Stand is a 2020 Russian WWII film written and directed by Vadim Shmelyov. A story about the heroic performance of the Podolsk cadets’ (ru) at the Battle of Moscow in October 1941. Plot The cadets of the Podolsk artillery and infantry schools are completing their training, and they will soon become commanders. Two friends compete for a girl. Suddenly, the command learns about the breakthrough of the front and the movement of a German tank column to Moscow. The only serious force is the cadets, they must stop the Germans at the Ilyinsky defence line and hold out until the reserves approach. In fierce battles, where many of them die, they fulfill this task. Cast Aleksey Bardukov as Lieutenant Afanasiy Aleshkin as the head of the Podolsk Artillery School, Colonel Sergey Bezrukov as Captain Lubov Konstantinova as Junior Sergeant Mariya 'Masha' Grigorieva, nurse Artyom Gubin as Junior Sergeant Aleksandr 'Sashka' Lavrov, cadet Igor Yudin as Sergeant Mitya Shemyakin, cadet Guram Bablishvili as Lieutenant Museridze Dmitriy Solomykin as Lieutenant Shapovalov Roman Madyanov as Major General Vasily Smirnov Yekaterina Rednikova as Military doctor Nikitina Sergey Bondarchuk Jr. as Major Dementyev Darya Ursulyak as Liza Aleshkina Daniil Spivakovsky as engineer Uglov Vasiliy Mishchenko as Lieutenant General Eliseev Gleb Bochkov as Sergeant Yakhin Oleg Ots as Bogatov, cadet Aleksey Kopashov as Simonov Gleb Danilov as Slavik Nikitin Aleksey Takharov as Azamat Khalilov, cadet Dmitry Topol as Ibragimov, cadet Pavel Stont as Vasilkov, cadet Aleksandr Lobanov as Battalion Commissar Andropov Stas Shmelev as Senior Lieutenant Nosov Nikolay Samsonov as Paramedic Petrov Pavel Krainov as Captain Rossikov Kirill Zaporozhskiy as Senior political instructor Lepekhin Darya Konyzheva as Red Army women Lyusya Shishkina Pavel Levkin as Senior Lieutenant Mamchich Dmitry Brauer as Germany Major Werner