We Await Your Victorious Return (1941)
The first of what became a popular genre of wartime 'film-concerts', consisting of eight musical numbers, strung together by a loose plot. It shows soldiers leaving their village for the front; in their absence, the desolate but resolute young women of the village assume responsibility for the business of the farm
Directors: Aleksandr Medvedkin, Ilya Trauberg.
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Tatyana Govorkova as Khoroshka |
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Inna Fyodorova as Yekaterina Ivanovna |
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Boris Chirkov as The Blacksmith |
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Aleksandra Danilova as Girl |
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Nina Petropavlovskaya as |
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Nadir Malishevsky as |
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Vyacheslav Gostinsky as |
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Lidiya Smirnova as |
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Galina Frolova as |
| Directing | Aleksandr Medvedkin | Director |
| Directing | Ilya Trauberg | Director |
| Camera | Timofei Lebeshev | Director of Photography |
| Camera | Konstantin Kuznetsov | Director of Photography |
| Writing | Aleksandr Medvedkin | Writer |