“Best Soviet Film Since 'Girl from Leningrad'”
Lovely telegraph operator Masha Stepanova is a sanitary nurse. During a training alarm, she meets a taxi driver Alexei (Alyosha) Solovyov. He reads verses to a girl and invites her to the theater. But at the appointed time, Alyosha doesn't come, and Mashenka finds him, helps to recover. Young people fell in love with each other, but Alexei was too frivolous, and brings the girl a lot of sorrows and insults. Because of Alexei’s hobby for another girl, Masha breaks up with him. But she will be able to convey her faithful and true-hearted feeling through years of separation and the hardships of wartime, and when they meet again at the front of the Finnish War, Solovyov realizes what a gift of fate was meeting him with this girl.
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Cast
27 people
Valentina Karavayeva
Mashenka
Also in
Our Girls
Ordinary Wonder
Mikhail Kuznetsov
Alyosha
Known for
Ivan the Terrible, Part I
Yuli Raizman
Known for
Chess Fever
Yevgeni Gabrilovich
Also in
The Master
Yevgeniya Abdirkina
Ye. Khakhanova
Dariya Pankratova
Klava
No other roles listed
Sergey Yermolinsky
Valentina Kuznetsova
Iosif Shpinel
Vera Altayskaya
Vera
Known for
Father Frost
Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka
P. Seryegin
Yuli Raizman Director · Yevgeni Gabrilovich Writer Sergey Yermolinsky Writer
United States release November 20, 1942 · Produced in Russia · Original title Машенька
Production
Mosfilm
Production
Russia
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Original title
Машенька
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
Russian
Release dates
Russia · April 10, 1942
Theatrical
United States · November 20, 1942
Argentina
November 17, 1942
Hungary
November 4, 1967
Mexico
January 28, 1944
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