Love Awaits Those Who Return (1968)
Follows a young soldier and poet at the beginning of World War II in 1941. After being wounded while trying to save his commander, he finds himself behind enemy lines and goes through an arduous journey of survival and trials as he makes his way to a partisan detachment. Throughout his ordeal, the soldier reads poems by wartime poets.
Director:
Leonid Osyka
Writer:
Leonid Osyka
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Boris Khmelnitsky as |
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Boryslav Brondukov as |
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Yuriy Dubrovin as |
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Aleksei Safonov as |
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Igor Yasulovich as |
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Valeriy Bessarab as |
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Antonina Leftiy as Тоня |
| Writing | Leonid Osyka | Screenplay |
| Directing | Leonid Osyka | Director |
| Camera | Mykhailo Belikov | Director of Photography |
| Art | Mikhail Rakovskiy | Production Design |
| Crew | Vladimir Bulaenko | Poem |
| Crew | Semyon Gudzenko | Poem |
| Sound | Volodymyr Huba | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Riva Bisnovataya | Sound Director |
| Editing | Marfa Ponomarenko | Editor |
| Writing | L. Chumakova | Script Editor |
| Costume & Make-Up | T. Glinkova | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | V. Shchikin | Makeup & Hair |
| Art | Serhiy Brzhestovsky | Assistant Production Design |
| Camera | Valeri Bashkatov | Assistant Camera |
| Camera | P. Sokolovskiy | Assistant Camera |
| Directing | Yuri Tupitskiy | First Assistant Director |
| Sound | Leonid Balabaychenko | Conductor |
| Production | N. Yurieva | Producer |
| Directing | Lev Kolesnik | Second Unit Director |