Konstantin Simonov is a well-known Russian writer who served as a war correspondent throughout the war, as well as a poet immortalized by his piercing poem “Wait for me, and I will return…,” and the novel LIVING AND THE DEAD. Later, it was continued with two more novels—“Soldiers Are Not Born” and “The Last Summer”—growing into a trilogy and turning into an epic artistic narrative of the Soviet people’s path to victory in the Great Patriotic War. The author sought to combine two planes: a reliable “chronicle” of the main war events seen through the eyes of the key heroes—Serepilin and Sintsov—and an analysis of these events from the standpoint of the author’s understanding and evaluation of them. The second part of the trilogy describes the period of preparation and the events of the Battle of Stalingrad—a turning point of the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945. The third part is devoted to the Belarusian offensive operation. The images of the main heroes in the films LIVING AND THE DEAD, “Redemption,” created on the basis of the first two books of the trilogy, were brilliantly embodied by Kirill Lavrov and Anatoly Papanov.