
Against the Sun(2014)
A WWII pilot, bombardier, and radioman find themselves adrift on a lifeboat without food or water after being forced to ditch their plane during a scouting mission.


Intelligence-diversionary group of athletes who know how to shoot snipers, run, jump, feel free in the water and under water, to withstand the monstrous load of hand-to-hand fights, will be able to reach the goal only going together, passing the task as a relay. Seven of them. Among them is a girl swimmer. It will be the most difficult, the last stage of the journey. The plot is based on the real facts of the great Patriotic war.

Leonhard Merzin
Ozerin

Pavel Remezov
Ivan Prokopenko

Uldis Pūcītis

Elguja Burduli

Sergei Ivanov

Marina Troshina

Yuri Puzyryov

Uldis Lieldidzs

Oļgerts Kroders

Oleg Fedulov
Driver
Special Forces Unit is a war, adventure film released in 1978. Directed by Vadim Lysenko, it stars Leonhard Merzin, Pavel Remezov, Uldis Pūcītis. Intelligence-diversionary group of athletes who know how to shoot snipers, run, jump, feel free in the water and under water, to withstand the monstrous load of hand-to-hand fights, will be able to reach the goal only going together, passing the task as a relay. Seven of them. Among them is a girl swimmer. It will be the most difficult, the last stage of the journey. The plot is based on the real facts of the great Patriotic war.
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