About the fate of a Russian woman who endured all the hardships of war and post-war life. After the war, those few who survived at the front returned to their native village. But Marfa's husband, whom she had been waiting for for so many years, would never return. Marfa, a beautiful and proud woman, remains true to her only love.
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Lyudmila Chursina
Marfa
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Nonna Mordyukova
Glafira
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Tatyana Pelttser
Nastasya
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Rimma Markova
Avdotya
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Armen Dzhigarkhanyan
Styshnoy
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Nikolai Gritsenko
Markelov
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Georgi Zhzhyonov
father Leonid
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Yevgeni Shutov
Zulya
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Aleksei Karpushkin
Seryozhka
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Inga Budkevich
Marinka
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The Twelve Chairs
Sergei Kalinin
granddad
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Larisa Kronberg
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Nikolai Moskalenko Director · Dmitri Vasiliu Writer Mikhail Alekseyev Author
First release April 7, 1969 · Produced in Russia, Russia · Original title Журавушка
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Mosfilm
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Russia · Russia
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Original title
Журавушка
Original language
Russian
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Russian
Release dates
Russia · April 7, 1969
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No release date listed for United States.
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