 Additional errors include the main street in Moscow, along which he and his captured comrades were driven at the beginning of the novel, was named by Rost as Nevsky Prospekt, which is actually located in Saint Petersburg.Apparently Bauer, as the author of the book, failed to cross-check such unreliable, easily verifiable, details in Rost's story.In 1959, Rost's story was the subject of a , starring the German character actor Heinz Weiss.