Burning Stones

January 1945. General Chuikov’s 8th Guards Army storms the fortress city of Poznan. In the vanguard is the battalion of Major Prokhor Burmistrov. The fighters knock the Germans out of the railway station, force the Warta River, and capture one of the forts of the fortress. But after recovering from the first blow, the fascists launch a counterattack and block our men on the upper floors of the buildings. The balance between life and death is now measured in minutes. Burmistrov realizes that breaking through the ring of surrounding Hitlerites will have to be done by their own forces…