Once There Was a Girl

Woven around the daily lives of two children, nine-year-old Nastenka and five-year-old Katia, this is a story of the 17 months' siege of Leningrad and of the people and families shattered by the war, their homes bombed and destroyed, their lives in a constant anticipation of the advancing German army and air raids.

• Viktor EisymontDirector
• Vladimir NedobrovoWriter
• Venedict PushkovOriginal Music Composer

• Nina IvanovaNastenka
• Natalya ZashchipinaKatya
• Ada VojtsikNastenka's Mother
• Vera AltayskayaKatya's Mother
• Lidiya ShtykanTonya
• Aleksandr LarikovMakar Ivanovich
• Nikolai KornNastenka's Father
• Maria SamoilovaCast