Synopsis
During a freezing WWII winter, two Soviet partisans on a mission to gather food contend with the temperature, the occupying Germans, and their own psyches.
Movie Information
- Director
- Larisa Shepitko
- Writers
- Yuri Klepikov, Larisa Shepitko
- Release Year
- 1977
- Runtime
- 110 minutes
- Genre
- Drama, War
- Language
- RU
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Status
- Released
- Rating
- 7.9 / 10 (256 votes)
Top Cast
Boris Plotnikov
Sotnikov
Vladimir Gostyukhin
Rybak
Anatoliy Solonitsyn
Portnov, collaborationist interrogator
Lyudmila Polyakova
Avginya Demchikha, the mother
Viktoriya Goldentul
Basya Meyer, the girl
Sergei Yakovlev
Petr Sych, village elder
Mariya Vinogradova
Village elder's wife
Mykola Sektymenko
Stas Gomenyuk, collaborationist policeman
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