The read
It runs long at 3h 20m.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb7.5/10
11 audience votes
Key crew
- Sergei GerasimovDirector
- Sergei GerasimovWriter
- Pavel ChekalovOriginal Music Composer
- Aram KhachaturyanOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Nikolay EryomenkoAleksei Ivanovich Pavlov
- Tamara MakarovaAnna Andreyevna
- Zhanna BolotovaTanya
- Vitali DoroninPyotr Ivanovich Pavlov
- Natalya MedvedevaValentina Sergeyevna
- Sergey NikonenkoYuri Pavlov
- Olesya IvanovaVarvara Andreyevna
- Anastasiya FilippovaStepanida Gavrilovna
- Mikhail GluzskiyKlyachko
- Vadim ZakharchenkoSavateyev
- Tatyana GavrilovaMariya Nikolayevna
- Sergei GerasimovLvov-Shcherbatsky
Stills
Themes
corruptioncapitalismgermanyconcentration campprisoner of warsoviet unionconcentration camp prisonerroad tripargentinacar accidentbuchenwaldnazism