Anna Zargitckaia

Pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Veronika attend le retour de son fiancé Boris, parti sur le front. Sans nouvelle, elle cède aux avances du cousin de celui-ci, un planqué peu glorieux, égoïste et distant. Délaissée, Veronika s’implique à sa manière dans le conflit en investissant son énergie pour l’aide et le réconfort des soldats blessés rapatriés au pays. Elle prend conscience de l’horreur de la guerre. Palme d'Or 1957.

Directed by Grigori Gritscher-Tscherikower.

For 49 days, four young soldiers drifted on a barge that was blown out to sea by a storm. Only by the end of the seventh week they were discovered by American pilots.

Based on the novel of the same name by Viktor Kin. 1921, Far East. Two Komsomol members, Matveyev and Bezais, must cross the front line near Khabarovsk to give the partisans money and a coded message. In Khabarovsk, Matveyev wants to meet a girl, Liza, with whom he is in love, but a serious injury disrupts his plans...