The Merchant and the Poet (1979)
A small Belarusian town, where Olga, a vivacious and able to stand up for herself and her daughter, lived, was occupied by the Germans. It was she who was approached by the underground with a request to ransom a man from a prisoner-of-war camp. The young woman was shocked by what she saw in the camp - and not finding the man she was looking for, Olga ransomed the young man, calling him her husband. The soldier, as soon as he got stronger, began to rush into battle. And when he died, Olga joined the fight against the Nazis.
Director: Samson Samsonov
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Natalya Andreychenko as |
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Viktor Zhiganov as |
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Viktor Pavlov as |
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Lyubov Reymer as |
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Ivan Savkin as |
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Ivan Ryzhov as |
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Timofey Spivak as |
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Viktor Shulgin as |
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Nikolai Tagin as |
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Vyacheslav Voynarovsky as |
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Aleksandra Kharitonova as |
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Stefaniya Stanyuta as |
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Boris Minayev as |
| Writing | Ivan Shamyakin | Writer |
| Directing | Samson Samsonov | Director |
| Art | Sergey Voronkov | Production Design |
| Sound | Eduard Artemyev | Music |
| Art | Aleksandr Borisov | Production Design |
| Camera | Evgeniy Guslinskiy | Director of Photography |