A Short Lull (1961)
A group of Soviet soldiers stops in a forest near Prague during a break between battles. An elderly soldier named Sherstobitov, who was assigned to go to the unit's headquarters to get mail, meets a Czech girl named Eva. On the way to the unit's location, the soldier would throw away his bicycle, lie down under a tree and sing Czech songs he had recently heard, and the girl would come to listen to them every day. Before leaving for battle again, Sherstobitov gives Eva a piano as a parting gift, which he found in an abandoned house on a nearby farmstead.
Director: Leonid Maryagin
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Tatyana Ivanilova as |
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Anatoly Movchan as |
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Nikolai Lukyanov as |
| Directing | Leonid Maryagin | Director |
| Writing | Veniamin Riskind | Writer |
| Writing | Leonid Maryagin | Writer |
| Camera | Leonid Sikoruk | Director of Photography |
| Art | Robert Akopov | Production Design |
| Sound | Georgy Ivanov | Original Music Composer |