| Brief Description: | Grigori Chukrai's poetic and elegiac war story is one of the major
works of post-war Russian cinema, detailing the odd, bemused moments
of a soldier's earnest seduction of a country girl while visiting his
mother. The film is also devastating at capturing the dread, pain and
humiliation of war, and its effects on the people. "The picture flows
in such a swift, poetic way that the tragedy of it is concealed by a
gentle lyric quality" (New York Times). With Vladimir Ivashov and
Shanna Prokhorenko. Russian with English subtitles. |
