Brest is on the coast of France.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_of_Brest_Fortress
Good movie. Propaganda included.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1343703/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
A war drama set during the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, in which Soviet troops held on to a border stronghold for nine days.
Brest was a WW2 german sub base in France, also.
In WW2 Polish Brest was called Brest-Litovsk. Now it is just Brest.