Overview
In a remote Russian village during World War I, colourful and nuanced characters experience divided loyalties: family loyalty vs. personal desire, nationalism vs. transcendent humanism.
Director and cast
- Boris Barnet Director
- Aleksandr Chistyakov as Pyotr Ivanonich Kadkin
- Yelena Kuzmina as Marika Greshina
- Sergey Komarov as Alexander Petrovich Greshin
- Nikolai Bogolyubov as Nikolai Kadkin
- Nikolay Kryuchkov as Senka Kadkin
- Hans Klering as Mueller, German POW
- Vladimir Uralskiy as Smelchakov - cabdriver
- Mikhail Zharov as Krayevitch, a student
- Sergei Komarov as Alexander Petrovich Greshin
- Vladimir Uralsky Cast
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