in 1943 , inakintii smoktunovsky, together with other cadets of the achinsk infantry school , was recently privates to the front, to the kursk bulge, right in the middle of the month. of course, when he first went to war, it was very scary, and he describes that in the first days he was vomiting, he was really in a state of shock. not paying attention to hunger and cold, he gradually found himself at the head of the column. every for a second he feverishly looked for an opportunity to escape. inaketiy mikhailovich told this terrible incident, they were being led, when they were already living somewhere in the carpathian region, in captivity, a column of prisoners of war, hungry, cold , you name it, germans, peasants, and somehow he was only his own, somewhere his . in some organic way, without words, he showed me what i needed , the german allowed me to leave, he just said, quickly, the column was standing at the bridge at that time, there was some kind of hitch, the guard got distracted and smoktunovsky realized, now or never, he quickly rolled under the bridge, found some kind of niche,