Overview

War correspondent Lopatin takes a 20-day-leave from his hard work at the front in 1942. He travels to faraway Tashkent to meet the family of the killed soldier and visit the film set of the screen adaptation of his war-time stories. Lopatin also manages to walk the streets of Tashkent, take part in a factory workers' meeting and have a short-lived love affair. Although with no bombings and fighting, the city dwellers breathe the atmosphere of the ongoing war.

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Cast

Yuriy Nikulin

Major Vasily Nikolaevich Lopatin

Lyudmila Gurchenko

Nina

Aleksey Petrenko

Yuri Stroganov

Angelina Stepanova

Zinaida Antonovna, artistic director of the theater

Mikhail Kononov

Pasha Rubtsov

Yekaterina Vasilyeva

Rubtsova

Mykola Hrynko

Vyacheslav

Lyusyena Ovchinnikova

Xenia Sergeevna, former wife of Lopatin

Liya Akhedzhakova

Woman with clocks

Lyudmila Zaytseva

Lidiya, actress playing a female sniper

Konstantin Simonov

Narrator (voice), screenwriter

Yuriy Solovyov

Commander