Plot Summary

Ends the Great Patriotic war. During the retreat of the Nazis from the Lithuanian villages have disappeared fist Stankus, who served as mayor during the German occupation. But farmers are hesitant to share kulak land — let's go thundering cannonade. And the approach to land Stankulov mined. Budrys farmer goes to town "for power". Returned to his native village of Deauville — the daughter of a local teacher. In the beginning of the war she left with the retreating red Army, worked at the hospital. Deauville finds out that her father killed and her house was settled Stankus. Hard was her meeting with a childhood friend Powelson, son Stankus. Povilas not left the village with his father. But he is confused, myself, do not believe that the burned village can revive life.

Did You Know?

An unexpected event that occurred at the end of the movie, almost put an end to the career of Eugenie Plescia, and on the way out "Fire" at the all-Union screens. In the night of 7 April 1961, elder brother of the female lead role, the officer of the Soviet Navy, the commander of a floating base submarines "Smolny" Jonas Pleskys in the transition from Klaipeda to Tallinn stole your ship to Sweden, where he requested (and later received) political asylum. An international scandal broke out. The ship and crew who wished to return, back in the USSR. And Plescia in August 1961, the Soviet Union was sentenced in absentia to death. (Later Plaskis with the help of the CIA went into Guatemala and then lived in California and Venezuela, and became one of prototypes of the main character in the famous novel by Tom Clancy "the Hunt for „Red October.“). In the end, „Gunfire“ out in the country hire only in 1964. Eugenia Plescia, despite the serious, by Soviet standards, a stain in the biography, got only the status of "restricted to travel abroad" and the subsequent control of the State security Committee.