Falling Stars (1981)
Falling Star is based on three stories by the contemporary Russian writer Viktor Astafyev and centers on a young soldier on the front lines who is wounded and taken to the hospital. Once there, he muses about his childhood and a little girl he had loved - someone who could easily have grown up to be the nurse that is attending to him now. As he recuperates, he and the nurse fall in love and he very much wants to marry her. At this point, the nurse's mother comes for a visit and advises him against such an action because if they were to marry and he were subsequently killed or maimed in action - the fighting is still close to the hospital - the nurse would suffer much more than if he just left her alone. Now it is up to the soldier to make a decision one way or the other.
Director: Igor Talankin
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Dariya Mikhaylova as Lida |
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Pyotr Fyodorov as Misha Yerofeyev |
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Alla Demidova as Lida's Mother |
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Vera Glagoleva as Zhenka |
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Pyotr Yurchenkov Sr. as Sashka |
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Olga Anokhina as |
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Vladimir Gritsevskiy as |
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Sergei Desnitsky as |
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Aleksandr Lebedev as |
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Vladimir Sichkar as |
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Nikolai Skorobogatov as |
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Valentina Titova as |
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Ivan Ufimtsev as |
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Aleksandr Bespalyy as |
| Directing | Igor Talankin | Director |
| Writing | Igor Talankin | Writer |
| Camera | Georgi Rerberg | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Viktor Astafyev | Novel |
| Sound | Vladimir Mazurov | Sound Designer |
| Sound | Eri Klas | Conductor |
| Editing | Zoya Veryovkina | Editor |
| Sound | Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | Music |
| Sound | Alfred Schnittke | Original Music Composer |
| Art | Vladimir Aronin | Production Design |
| Camera | Yuriy Rayskiy | Camera Operator |
| Directing | Avtandil Kvirikashvili | Assistant Director |
| Writing | Irina Sergievskaya | Script Editor |
| Crew | M. Gulyakin | Military Consultant |
| Production | Raymond Dzhanazyan | Executive Producer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Tatyana Lichmanova | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | T. Shilicheva | Makeup Artist |