Nikolai Skorobogatov

In May 1945, in the little town of Blankenheim on the liberated territory of Germany, Soviet soldiers successfully carry out a two-day operation of rescuing German orphaned children from the attack of a group of wehrwolfs. Together with a woman working for a Berlin newspaper, they help organize a children's home, to which a baby, abandoned by the refugees, is brought, and the Soviet soldiers name him "Little Alexander". (ruscico.net)

Director and writer Gleb Panfilov adapted Maxim Gorky's play Vassa Zheleznova for this theatrical film that recounts Vassa's iron rule over a dissipated merchant family several years before the 1917 revolution. (allmovie.com)