The Second World War has ended. With the victory in Moscow, front-line friends, Antonina, Fyodor and Alexey, move into Fyodor’s huge apartment, which was empty in the first years of the war, when his wife left him. Alexey loved Antonina all his life, but when he found out that she loved Fedor, he immediately left for his homeland, and Fedor’s wife unexpectedly returned.
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Lidiya Sukharevskaya
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Ivan Dmitriev
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Nikolai Kovarsky
Lev Rudnik
Stanislav Chekan
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Olga Krasina
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Elza Lezhdey
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Leonid Chubarov
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Ballad of a Soldier
Nina Grebeshkova
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Konstantin Bartashevich
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Kirill Stolyarov
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Sergey Nikonenko
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Lev Rudnik Director · Lidiya Sukharevskaya Writer Evgeniy Krylatov Composer
First release January 6, 1962 · Produced in Russia · Original title Жизнь сначала
Production
Mosfilm
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Russia
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Original title
Жизнь сначала
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
Russian
Release dates
Russia · January 6, 1962
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No release date listed for United States.
Hungary
March 21, 1963
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