''White Explosion'' () is a 1969 Soviet historical action war film directed by

Stanislav Govorukhin Stanislav Sergeyevich Govorukhin (; 29 March 1936 – 14 June 2018) was a Soviet Union, Soviet and Russians, Russian film director, actor, screenwriter, producer and politician. He was named People's Artist of Russia in 2006. His movies often fe ...

. The film takes place in 1942, when Soviet climbers saved the inhabitants of the Caucasus foothills by sacrificing themselves.

Plot

In 1942, during the

Great Patriotic War The Eastern Front, also known as the Great Patriotic War (term), Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union and its successor states, and the German–Soviet War in modern Germany and Ukraine, was a Theater (warfare), theatre of World War II ...

, the soldiers of the

Third Reich Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictat ...

's Edelweiss mountain division occupy a strategic position in the Caucasus mountains, from which they fire on Soviet refugees and wounded Red Army soldiers crossing the ridge. Lieutenant Artem Arsenov (Armen Dzhigarkhanyan) devises a daring plan to climb to the summit and detonate the snow cap, triggering an avalanche to strike the German positions. He had unsuccessfully attempted to conquer this peak even before the war, in 1940. For the mission, he assembles a group of six people, including both experienced mountaineers and novices. The group reaches the summit with heavy losses and completes the task. The Red Army forces begin to move through the now-cleared pass.

Cast

Sergey Nikonenko Sergei Petrovich Nikonenko (; born 16 April 1941 in Moscow) is a Soviet and Russian actor, a film director and a screenwriter. He was awarded with People's Artist of the RSFSR (1991). He performed in more than eighty films since 1961. Selected ...

as Kolya Spichkin (as S. Nikonenko) *

Lyudmila Gurchenko Lyudmila Markovna Gurchenko (12 November 193530 March 2011, ) was a Soviet and Russian actress, singer and entertainer. She was given the honorary title People's Artist of the USSR in 1983. Biography Lyudmila Gurchenko was born in Kharkiv, USSR ...

as Vera Arsenova (as L. Gurchenko) * Anatoliy Ignatyev as Vadim Baranov (as A. Ignatyev) *

Armen Dzhigarkhanyan Armen Borisi Dzhigarkhanyan (3 October 193514 November 2020) was a Soviet Union, Soviet, Armenian, and Russian actor. Born and raised in Yerevan, Dzhigarkhanyan started acting in the academic and Russian theaters of the city, before moving to Mos ...

as Artyom Arsenov (as A. Dzhigarkhanyan) *

Fyodor Odinokov Fyodor Ivanovich Odinokov (; — 19 February 1994) was a Soviet actor. He appeared in more than seventy films from 1938 to 1994. Selected filmography References External links * * 1913 births 1994 deaths People from Tula Oblast ...

as Semyon Ivanovich (as F. Odinokov) * Leo Pilpani as Shota Iliani (as L. Pilpani) * Bukhuti Zakariadze as Tengiz Aleksandrovich (as B. Zakariadze) * Stepan Krylov * Nikolai Fyodortsov * A. IvanovБелый взрыв (1969) Full Cast & Crew
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* {{Stanislav Govorukhin 1969 films 1969 action films 1969 war films 1960s historical action films 1960s action war films 1960s Soviet films 1960s Russian-language films Russian-language historical action films Films set in 1942 Soviet historical action films Soviet action war films Soviet World War II films Soviet black-and-white films