Jan Tirner

The Battle of Moscow is a 1985 Soviet multi-part war narrative, presenting a dramatized account of the 1941 Battle of Moscow and the events preceding it. The battle was the first major defeat of German Wehrmacht in the Second World War.

On the morning of Christmas Eve, Daddy was supposed to go to the cottage with his little son and stop on the way to pick up Mommy, who still had to go to work. But the crazy daddy, with all the packages, luggage and suitcases, had forgotten the dear little Honzik at home. When he and his wife found out, they returned home. But in the meantime, a neighbor with keys to the apartment discovered the little boy. She forced her husband to take the child to the neighbour's cottage. And the merry-go-round of thwarted journeys doesn't end...