Overview
The plot is based on the dramatic fate of the Red Army commander Aleksei Ivanovich Pavlov. Having been captured in January 1942 and being among the displaced persons, he didn't immediately decide to return to the USSR. Having rolled around the foreign country for 17 years, Aleksei nevertheless returned to his homeland. He goes to his brother in the south of the country to Sevastopol. Aleksei accidentally meets the doctor Anna Andreyevna, who was saved from death in besieged Leningrad. She travels by car from Moscow and also to the south, with her daughter Tanya; she suggests he join them. Aleksei tells about his life on the road.
DirectorSergei Gerasimov
WritersSergei Gerasimov
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Nikolay Eryomenko
Aleksei Ivanovich Pavlov

Tamara Makarova
Anna Andreyevna

Zhanna Bolotova
Tanya

Vitali Doronin
Pyotr Ivanovich Pavlov

Natalya Medvedeva
Valentina Sergeyevna

Sergey Nikonenko
Yuri Pavlov

Olesya Ivanova
Varvara Andreyevna

Anastasiya Filippova
Stepanida Gavrilovna

Mikhail Gluzskiy
Klyachko

Vadim Zakharchenko
Savateyev
Details
LanguageRussian
Production companiesGorky Film Studios, DEFA