Set in 1955 when many migrated from Russia to the Steppes of Kazakhstan, this is the trip back to the Canal from the frontier and farms by a number of people who tell their settler stories. Alyonka Muratova is a winsome 13 year old who talks Dmitry Prokovich, the chief mechanic for the Soviet, into giving up his seat in the truck to a young mother with her infant daughter. Then Alyonka and Dmitry share the back of the open truck with a young woman, newly graduated dentist who has not been able to find a position, Stefan, a hitchhiker with a dog who hopes his upper-class wife will return to him and the countryside, and Vasselina Petrovolka, a woman who lost one of her twin daughters in a riding accident by the river shortly after they arrived, and now is returning to tell the other twin of her sister's fate. A warm hearted look at common folks traveling in the frontier.
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18 people
Natalya Ovodova
Alyonka
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Irina Zarubina
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Vasiliy Shukshin
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Erast Garin
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Nikolay Kryuchkov
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Yevgeni Shutov
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Maya Menglet
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Natalya Seleznyova
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Nikolai Bogolyubov
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Anatoli Grachyov
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Anda Zaice
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Boris Barnet Director · Sergei Antonov Writer Kirill Molchanov Composer
First release March 22, 1962 · Produced in Russia, Russia · Original title Алёнка
Production
Mosfilm
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Russia · Russia
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Original title
Алёнка
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
Russian
Release dates
Russia · March 22, 1962
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No release date listed for United States.
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