Also known as At Great Cost, this adaptation of a story by Mikhailo Kotsyubinsky—a Ukrainian writer executed in the Stalinist purges but rehabilitated in 1955—anticipates the wave of Sixties poetic cinema in its focus on star-crossed lover…

1941年8月5日，苏军的敖德萨防御战打响，防御区的司令茹科夫海军少将统一指挥苏军独立滨海集团和黑海舰队，为掩护南方方面军向东撤退，在失去陆上支援的条件下，依靠诸军种协同一致和市民的支持，抗击了德国军队南方集团军群所辖罗马尼亚第4集团军的连续进攻。保卫战历时73天，苏联独立滨海集团军和黑海舰队一部在居民的支援下，于黑海沿岸城市…