Credited cast: | |||
Nonna Mordyukova | ... | Klavdia Vavilova | |
Rolan Bykov | ... | Yefim Mahazannik | |
Raisa Nedashkovskaya | ... | Maria Mahazannik | |
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Lyudmila Volynskaya | ... | The Grandmother |
Vasiliy Shukshin | ... | The Commandant | |
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Lyubov Kats | ... | (as Lyuba Kats) |
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Pavel Levin | ... | (as Pavlik Levin) |
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Dmitri Kleyman | ... | (as Dima Kleyman) |
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Marta Bratkova | ||
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Igor Fishman | ||
Sergey Nikonenko | |||
Otar Koberidze | |||
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Viktor Shakhov | ... | (as V. Shakhov) |
Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
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Leonid Reutov | ... | (as L. Reutov) |
Klavdia Vavilova, a Red Army cavalry commissar, is waylaid by an unexpected pregnancy. She stays with a Jewish family to give birth and is softened somewhat by the experience of family life. Written by Erik Gregersen <erik@astro.as.utexas.edu>
During the Russian Revolution, the Red army enters an isolated town and leaves behind a female revolutionary, Klavdia, who has become unexpectedly pregnant. Klavdia stays with a Jewish family to have her baby.
A remarkable film, but one which was left unfinished. The director, Aleksandr Askoldov, is only credited with one movie, and it as if he put a lifetime of ideas into this single film.