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The film deals with antiwar themes and focuses on a garrison of Russian female soldiers in World War II. It was nominated for an Oscar in the Best Foreign Language Film category. The film is set in Karelia (near Finland) and was filmed near Ruskeala. The film opens in color, with a girl taking off her motorcycle helmet -- she is camping with her friends. It then shifts to summer 1942, in the same area, in the midst of World War II some ways behind the Soviet frontlines on the Eastern Front. Having asked for soldiers who don't drink alcohol and fraternize with women, Senior Sergeant Vaskov is unexpectedly assigned a group of young female anti-aircraft gunners in a railway station far from the front line. Vaskov is not used to commanding women, and therefore clashes with them over daily issues. During an air raid, one of the girls, Rita Osyanina, shoots down an enemy aircraft. Though both of its crew manage to get out of the airplane, one's parachute fails to deploy and the other is shot down by Rita.

Vaskov's superior arrives and commends Rita, bringing two new recruits to replace those that were injured in the attack. One is Zhenya, who the superior reveals had a romantic affair with a married officer. Dialogue and flashbacks in color begin to reveal the backstories of the women. Rita has a baby with her husband, a soldier, who dies soon after leaving to war; she is deployed close to her mother in a neighboring town, who takes care of the baby. custom motorcycle helmet painting calgaryZhenya did have an affair with an officer friend of her father's; atv for sale myrtle beach schowever, her father and family were killed by the Germans during the invasion. motorcycle gear temecula ca

Lisa fell in love with an older man that visited her family, but was rejected before he left; later, she falls in love with Vaskov as well. Galya came from an orphanage and lied about her age to enlist, and Sonia, a university student and lover of poetry, was left behind by her boyfriend when he went to war. Although Vaskov tries to maintain order in the ranks, he does give concessions to the women, allowing them to wash their clothes. After the air raid, he permits a bath and lets them have a makeshift ball in their dormitory. Rita and Zhenya eventually manage to confront him about his past. It is revealed that though he is married, his wife eloped with the regiment's horse doctor while he was fighting on the Finnish front, and their child is neglected. Although he managed to get custody of the child, his son died soon after in Vaskov's mother's care. The regiment eventually bonds together as they continue life in the town. One day, Rita, having secretly carried rations to her family during the night, comes across two German paratroopers while on her way back to her garrison.

Vaskov chooses five volunteers: Rita, Zhenya, Lisa, Galya, and Sonia, to embark with him on a mission to eliminate them. They decide to cross the marshland in order to intercept the Germans, but going is slow and treacherous, causing Galya to lose a boot. When they finally reach the location that Vaskov knows that the German paratroopers will have to cross through, they lie in wait -- only to find that there are sixteen German paratroopers instead of two. Vaskov decides to delay the German soldiers as much as possible, and concludes from their movements that they are trying to sneak into Soviet lines by crossing a river. His soldiers come up with the idea to make the paratroopers think that there are a lot of civilians in their path by cutting down trees and lighting fires, which will cause the Germans to change direction to avoid detection. Though the plan almost fails, Zhenya's last-minute audacity in jumping in to the river convinces the paratroopers to take a longer route through the forest.

Vaskov sends Lisa back to base for reinforcements. The group left in the forest prepare to reroute and try to avoid direct contact with enemy troops. They engage in guerrilla warfare with the Germans, and Vaskov is able to take out some troops with his knife. Vaskov takes point, but when his soldiers bring the supplies back up to him, finds that his tobacco pouch is missing. Sonia, against orders, goes to get it for him; Vaskov and Rita chase her only to find her dead body, stabbed to death by a German; her boots are later given to Galya to wear. The remaining four later run in to a German group again; while Vaskov, Rita, and Zhenya hold off the enemy, Galya cowers behind a rock. Rita and Sonia call for a investigation in to her cowardice, but Vaskov tells them that it was "confusion", and cowardice only comes in the second battle. In another surprise engagement, Galya is shot after losing her nerve and running for a nonexistent mother, and Vaskov orders his remaining two soldiers to retreat.

He then leads the Germans away from the remaining two soldiers, firing at them with his Nagant revolver as they chase him through the forest. Vaskov is shot in the arm but manages to escape from the Germans -- realizing that the reinforcements have not come, he hallucinates about Lisa, who tells him that she failed because she went too fast, drowning in the wet marshland. He runs in to a log cabin, which serves as the Germans' base of operations, and kills a lone soldier, avoids another, and secures more weapons and ammunition. He once again miraculously comes across Rita and Zhenya, but after a tearful reunion realizes that they have disobeyed his orders to retreat. He searches in his bag for a grenade to mount a suicide attack with, but finds that the girls have taken the detonator out. Although he threatens to court martial them for continuing to disobey orders, they refuse to leave. They prepare to confront the Germans for the last time; Vaskov and Rita rake the forests with submachine gun fire while Zhenya covers with a rifle.

Rita is injured by shrapnel from a grenade, and tells Zhenya to leave her. Realizing that they are cornered, Zhenya disobeys Vaskov's orders to cover them and instead taunts and lures the Germans away through the forest, as Vaskov did earlier, and is shot to death. Vaskov stays with Rita against her wishes to treat her wounds, and promises to take her back to base. She asks him to take care of her son in the neighboring village. After kissing her at her request, he then leaves to find a way out of the area, leaving her the revolver, but soon comes back to find Rita dead by her own hand. The desperate Vaskov, armed only with knife, one shot in his revolver, and a deactivated grenade, returns to the cabin where the Germans are resting from their wounds. By stabbing a soldier, shooting another, and bluffing with the grenade, he is able to capture a submachine gun and force the remaining enemy troops to drop their weapons. Though he mocks them for being bested by a "bunch of girls" and threatens to kill them, he eventually takes the three remaining Germans as prisoners back to Soviet lines.