Clean Ponds

A poetic biography of a generation of young pre-war and wartime people, based on the works of Yuri Nagibin. Four inseparable friends — Sergei, Nina, Oska and Zhenya — spent all their school childhood on the Clean Ponds, in Moscow. But the school is over, and in their beloved gazebo they dream of the future, swear fidelity to each other and do not yet know that tomorrow war will break out and they will become participants in terrible events …

• Bella AkhmadulinaWriter
• Aleksey SakharovDirector
• Yuriy LevitinOriginal Music Composer

• Aleksandr ZbruevSergei Rakitin
• Yevghenia FilonovaNina
• Lyudmila GladunkoZhenya Rumyantseva
• Tamara SyominaAnna Samokhina
• Svetlana SvetlichnayaKatya
• Vladimir YevstafyevOska
• Eduard Abalovofficer
• Nina AgapovaLyubov Kulchitskaya
• Yelizaveta AuerbakhKatya's mother
• Aleksandra DanilovaDusya
• Valeriy ZalivinTridesyatov's guest
• Nikolai KryukovLev Matveyevich Rzhanov