A Simple Story

The war was over. Like many of her female friends, Sasha Potapova was left a widow. It was hard living without a man’s shoulder to lean on, without love and affection, yet no one had ever seen her crying or despairing. For her strong character, the fellow-villagers elected her a collective farm chairwoman. The work, with its cares and worries, helped all but forget about her personal misfortune and woman’s loneliness. And then she fell in love – a bittersweet, unshared love, but happy anyway…

• Yuri YegorovDirector
• Mark FradkinOriginal Music Composer
• Budimir MetalnikovWriter

• Nonna MordyukovaSasha Potapova
• Mikhail UlyanovDanilov
• Danylo IlchenkoEgor Lykov
• Vasiliy ShukshinIvan Lykov
• Irina MurzayevaSasha's mother
• Valentina VladimirovaAvdotiya
• Aleksei MironovGuskov
• Oleg AnofrievCast
• Nina BeloborodovaCast
• Valentin BryleevCast
• Tatyana BabaninaCast
• Mariya VinogradovaCast