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Film / 1976
Twenty Days Without War
Directed by
Aleksei German
War correspondent Lopatin takes a 20-day-leave from his hard work at the front in 1942. He travels to faraway Tashkent to meet the family of the killed soldier and visit the film set of the screen adaptation of his war-time stories. Lopatin also manages to walk the streets of Tashkent, take part in a factory workers' meeting and have a short-lived love affair. Although with no bombings and fighting, the city dwellers breathe the atmosphere …
The story
War correspondent Lopatin takes a 20-day-leave from his hard work at the front in 1942. He travels to faraway Tashkent to meet the family of the killed soldier and visit the film set of the screen adaptation of his war-time stories. Lopatin also manages to walk the streets of Tashkent, take part in a factory workers' meeting and have a short-lived love affair. Although with no bombings and fighting, the city dwellers breathe the atmosphere of the ongoing war.
Cast
Yuriy NikulinMajor Vasily Nikolaevich Lopatin
Lyudmila GurchenkoNina
Aleksey PetrenkoYuri Stroganov
Angelina StepanovaZinaida Antonovna, artistic director of the theater
Mikhail KononovPasha Rubtsov
Yekaterina VasilyevaRubtsova
Mykola HrynkoVyacheslav
Lyusyena OvchinnikovaXenia Sergeevna, former wife of Lopatin
Liya AkhedzhakovaWoman with clocks
Lyudmila ZaytsevaLidiya, actress playing a female sniper
Konstantin SimonovNarrator (voice), screenwriter
Yuriy SolovyovCommander
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