The Memory of the Heart

Synopsis

The story of an English pilot who crashed in the Soviet Union during the Second World War, and whose life is saved by a woman and a boy - two partisans near the enemy lines, Long afterwards in England he remembers the Russians with affection, tells his friends about his experiences, and resolves to go back to find the two partisans his heart remembers.

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Key crew

• Sergei GerasimovScreenplay
• Tatyana LioznovaDirector
• Tamara MakarovaScreenplay
• Leonid AfanasyevOriginal Music Composer

Cast

• Andrei PopovRalph Chadwick
• Tamara MakarovaKatya
• Viktor SeleznyovCast
• Georgi ShapovalovVasily Savelov
• Igor KosukhinRalph's son
• Heinz Braungerman officer
• Valentina BelyaevaSavelova
• Nina MenshikovaEkaterina Ivanovna
• Nikolai SmirnovPonomarev
• Ralph ParkerStrawbridge
• Sally BelfrageImage (Olivia's douther)
• Klavdiya LepanovaEileen (Ralph's wife)

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