Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Nikolay Burlyaev | ... | Aleksandr Netuzhilin | |
Natalya Andreychenko | ... | Lyubov Antipova | |
Inna Churikova | ... | Vera Nikolaevna | |
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Ekaterina Yudina | ... | Katya Mironova (as Katya Yudina) |
Zinoviy Gerdt | ... | Cinema Administrator | |
Yelena Kozelkova | ... | Sonya | |
Viktor Proskurin | ... | Novikov | |
Vsevolod Shilovskiy | ... | Grisha | |
Aleksandr Martynov | ... | Kombat Mironov | |
Natalya Chenchik | ... | Lotochnitsa (as N. Chenchik) | |
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Vladimir Yurev | ... | Fyodor Malyanov (as V. Yuryev) |
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Vyacheslav Dubrovin | ... | Terekhin (as V. Dubrovin) |
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Galina Zolotaryova | ||
Aleksandr Kuzmichyov | ... | (as A. Kuzmichyov) | |
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L. Morgunov |
This melodrama revolves around the post-war meeting reunion an intelligent front-line officer, now happily married, and a woman street vendor. This encounter reawakens in them submerged feelings of gratitude and tenderness as the officer recalls how they met during the war and what she used to mean to him. Now he learns that she is alone with a small daughter, the girl's father having been killed at the front. Naturally, he seeks to help them but his wife is not so understanding... Written by Maywin Media AB <maywin@mbox200.swipnet.se>
This film might be perceived by many as melodramatic and yet it is a delicate study of things that happen so often - people falling in love with those who are not capable to love them back, seeing people through the dream of love past and gone, being in love with those who are so opposite that it is only a matter of time for the love like a ticking bomb to explode and wound with hurt and pain. It is melodramatic indeed but yet so real - something that everyone can relate to, except it's a bit different when love happens during the war. The film is set briefly during the World War II and mostly in after-war time - probably in Moscow. The actors are magnificent - they did great jobs showing strength, vulnerability and humanity of the characters in that time when everyone was trying to get their lives back on track and in such desperate need not to be alone in that difficult time. Great found locations and after-war Soviet fashions give the film wonderful authenticity and the true feeling of that time. The song that is often heard throughout the film has a haunting quality - the lyrics are a constant reminder that everything might have been different if it wasn't for the war.