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war romance film directed by

Mikhail Kalatozov Mikhail Konstantinovich Kalatozov ( ka, მიხეილ კალატოზიშვილი, ; 28 December 1903 – 26 March 1973), born Mikheil Kalatozishvili, was a Soviet film director of Georgians, Georgian origin who contributed to b ...

, for which

Dmitri Shostakovich Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich, group=n (9 August 1975) was a Soviet-era Russian composer and pianist who became internationally known after the premiere of his First Symphony in 1926 and thereafter was regarded as a major composer. Shostak ...

wrote the music. The film tells the story of the touching romance between

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secretary Alexey Uzorov and tractor driver Anna Zalogina on the background of Virgin Lands Campaign in

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.КиноПоиск. Все фильмы планеты
/ref> Part of Shostakovich's score was used as the basis for the Suite for Variety Orchestra No. 1. "Waltz II" from the suite was used in the 1999

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film ''

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''.

Cast

Vsevolod Sanayev Vsevolod Vasilyevich Sanayev (; 25 February 1912, Tula – 27 January 1996, Moscow) was a USSR, Soviet film and stage actor popular in the 1960s–1970s. Sanayev, a Moscow Art Theatre (and later Mossovet Theatre) actor, was honored in 1969 with t ...

as Alexey Yegorovich Dontsov, state farm director *

Nikolay Annenkov Nikolay Aleksandrovich Annenkov (30 September 1999, born Kokin) was the longest-lived People's Artist of the USSR before Igor Moiseyev and Vladimir Zeldin. Annenkov was born in Inzhavino, Tambov Governorate and worked in the Maly Theatre fro ...

as Kashtanov, secretary of the RC *

Oleg Yefremov Oleg Nikolayevich Yefremov (; 1 October 1927 – 24 May 2000) was a Soviet and Russian actor and Moscow Art Theatre producer. He was a People's Artist of the USSR (1976) and a Hero of Socialist Labour (1987). In 1949, he graduated from Moscow A ...

as Alexey Uzorov * Izolda Izvitskaya as Anna Zalogina *

Nina Doroshina Nina Mikhaylovna Doroshina (; 3 December 1934 — 21 April 2018) was a Soviet and Russian actress of theater and cinema, People's Artist of the RSFSR (1985). Personal life Doroshina was born in , Moscow Oblast, in what was then the Russian Sovi ...

as Nelly Panina *

Vyacheslav Voronin Vyacheslav Nikolayevich Voronin (; born 5 April 1974 in Vladikavkaz) is a Russian track and field athlete who specialised in the high jump. Voronin was a World Champion (1999) and European Indoor Champion (2000). His personal best is 2.40 metre ...

as Troyan *

Khoren Abrahamyan Khoren Babkeni Abrahamyan (April 1, 1930December 10, 2004) was an Armenian actor and director. Abrahamyan was honored with the title People’s Artist of the USSR in 1980. Life and career He studied at the Yerevan Institute of Theater and Fine ...

as Varten Vartanyan * Tatiana Doronina as Zoya

References

External links

*
''Review'' by Karl J. Kipling
*
The Cambridge Companion to Shostakovich
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