The Forty-First

The Russian Civil War reaches the Red Army's detachment as a hard, dry march, and Maryutka (Izolda Izvitskaya) is its best sniper, a woman who has already shot forty White officers. Her forty-first is Lieutenant Vadim Govorukha (Oleg Strizhenov), whom she and Commander Ansenti Yevsyukov (Nikolay Kryuchkov) take prisoner when the shot does not finish him. Grigoriy Chukhray puts the two of them in a forced closeness, and every day in it costs her more.