Based on this novella by Yuri German, another German — his son, film director Aleksei German — made the film "Trial on the Road." The film remained shelved for a long time because German Jr. adapted his father's book too contextually. In those distant years (the mid-1960s), partisans were supposed to be portrayed in cinema and on paper as perfect angels, while the Germans added a bit of real-life truth to them. Of course, compared with V. Bykov's later works, Y. German's novella is Soviet through and through. However, V. Bykov's later works, compared with Y. German's novella, are outright anti-Soviet.