Title:Goryachiy sneg Year:1972 Genre:Drama / War Language:Russian Country:Soviet Union Director:Gavriil Egiazarov Writer:Yuri Bondarev / Gavriil Egiazarov / Evgeniy Grigorev Actors:Georgi Zhzhyonov / Anatoliy Kuznetsov / Vadim Spiridonov Plot:In November, 1942, near the Volga, Stanlingrad is under siege of Commander Friederich Paulus and his 330,000 men. The Soviet high command unleashes an operation to protect the Mishkova River to avoid that about four hundred tanks join Paulus' army. The Soviet artillery soldiers protect their position with their lives in a bloodshed with few survivors.