Four inseparable friends — Sergei, Nina, Oska and Zhenya — spent all their school childhood on the Clean Ponds, in Moscow. But the school is over, and in their beloved gazebo they dream of the future, swear fidelity to each other and do not yet know that tomorrow war will break out and they will become participants in terrible events.
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Aleksandr Zbruev
Sergei Rakitin
Known for
To Kill a Dragon
Yevghenia Filonova
Nina
Also in
Snow Maiden
Stop Potapov!
Bella Akhmadulina
Also in
There Is Such a Lad
The Key That Should Not Be Handed On
Leonid Kalashnikov
Aleksey Sakharov
Lyudmila Gladunko
Zhenya Rumyantseva
Also in
The Only One
We Weren't Married in a Church
Yuriy Nagibin
Yuri Nagibin
Eugenia Filonova
Nina
Tamara Syomina
Anna Samokhina
Known for
The Golden Calf
Yuriy Levitin
Svetlana Svetlichnaya
Katya
Known for
The Diamond Arm
Seventeen Moments of Spring
Aleksey Sakharov Director · Bella Akhmadulina Writer Yuriy Nagibin Author
First release January 1, 1965 · Produced in Russia · Original title Чистые пруды
Production
Mosfilm
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Russia
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Original title
Чистые пруды
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
Russian
Release dates
Russia · January 1, 1965
Russia · August 30, 1965
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Hungary
November 1, 1967 · TV premiere
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