During a freezing WWII winter, two Soviet partisans on a mission to gather food contend with the temperature, the occupying Germans, and their own psyches.
Cast
Boris Plotnikov
Sotnikov
Vladimir Gostyukhin
Rybak
Anatoliy Solonitsyn
Portnov, collaborationist interrogator
Lyudmila Polyakova
Avginya Demchikha, the mother
Viktoriya Goldentul
Basya Meyer, the girl
Sergei Yakovlev
Petr Sych, village elder
Mariya Vinogradova
Village elder's wife
Mykola Sektymenko
Stas Gomenyuk, collaborationist policeman
Leonid Yukhin
Partisan commander
Aleksandr Zvenigorskiy
German officer
Vladimir Rudyy
German officer with black glasses
Anatoli Chebotaryov
German officer with glasses
Vasili Kravtsov
German officer
Vladimir Tkalich
German officer
Aleksandr Pyatkov
German soldier, executioner
Sergey Yurtaykin
Cart driver
Igor Bezyaev
Soviet partisan
Stanislav Borodokin
Soviet partisan
Stanislav Zhitaryov
Soviet partisan
Vadim Gusev
Soviet partisan
Aleksandra Kharitonova
Soviet partisan with a child
Gennadi Nenashev
Matyushenko, Soviet partisan
Galina Bulkina
Peasant woman
Mikhail Selyutin
Collaborator
V. Sokolov
Collaborationist policeman
Sergei Kanishchev
Boy wearing a budenovka
Dima Buranov
Child
Svetlana Kulkova
Child
Marina Pchelintseva
Child
Vladimir Sukhorebry
Unknown
Nikolay Gagarin
Unknown
Nikolai Smirnov
Unknown
Sergey Fyodorov
Unknown
A. Gerasimov
Unknown
V. Lavrentyev
Unknown
N. Chetvergov
Unknown
A. Naumova
Unknown
Yevgeniy Markov
German officer (uncredited)
Crew
Larisa Shepitko
Director, Writer
Yuri Klepikov
Writer
Aida Repina
Script Editor
Vasili Bykov
Novel
Valeriya Belova
Editor
Eleonora Praksina
Assistant Editor
Vladimir Chukhnov
Director of Photography
E. Eliasova
First Assistant Director
Evgeny Tsymbal
Second Assistant Director
Valentina Khovanskaya
Assistant Director
Willie Geller
Producer
Yuri Raksha
Production Design
Eduard Shcherbakov
Camera Operator
Yuriy Volodin
Assistant Camera
S. Podlegaev
Assistant Camera
Alina Budnikova
Costume Design
Sergey Kalinin
Makeup Artist
Yan Pototsky
Sound Director
Yevgeniy Bazanov
Sound Recordist
V. Zagorodnikov
Lighting Artist
Leonid Podsukhskiy
Lighting Artist
A. Modenov
Lighting Artist
Viktor Zhanov
VFX Director of Photography
Alfred Schnittke
Original Music Composer
Raisa Lukina
Music Editor
V. Sumtsov
Military Consultant
V. Bystrov
Scientific Consultant
Yuriy Nikolayevskiy
Conductor
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