Twenty Days Without War

War correspondent Lopatin takes a 20-day-leave from his hard work at the front in 1942. He travels to faraway Tashkent to meet the family of the killed soldier and visit the film set of the screen adaptation of his war-time stories. Lopatin also manages to walk the streets of Tashkent, take part in a factory workers' meeting and have a short-lived love affair. Although with no bombings and fighting, the city dwellers breathe the atmosphere of the ongoing war.

• Aleksei GermanDirector
• Konstantin SimonovWriter

• Yuriy NikulinMajor Vasily Nikolaevich Lopatin
• Lyudmila GurchenkoNina
• Aleksey PetrenkoYuri Stroganov
• Angelina StepanovaZinaida Antonovna, artistic director of the theater
• Mikhail KononovPasha Rubtsov
• Yekaterina VasilyevaRubtsova
• Mykola HrynkoVyacheslav
• Lyusyena OvchinnikovaXenia Sergeevna, former wife of Lopatin
• Liya AkhedzhakovaWoman with clocks
• Lyudmila ZaytsevaLidiya, actress playing a female sniper
• Konstantin SimonovNarrator (voice), screenwriter
• Yuriy SolovyovCommander