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151 mins
The difficult fate of a man who went through the war, the horror of Hitler’s and Stalin’s camps, but retained fortitude, decency and purity.
Vadim Lyubshin
Alyosha
Valeri Nadejko
Mitka
Tatyana Bojtova
Young Mariya
Arseni Susekov
Fedya
Vladimir Sklyarov
Police Chief
Vatslav Mikhalsky
Screenplay
Vatslav Mikhalsky
Novel
Yuri Butsko
Music
Rimma Tsegelnitskaya
Editor
Nina Buzeyeva
Assistant Editor
Valentina Kharlashova
Assistant Editor
Vladimir Rossikhin
Color Timer
Nadezhda Ryabova
Assistant Editor
T. Smagina
Assistant Editor
Boris Kuzovkin
Production Design
Boris Duksht
Set Decoration
Vera Artyomova-Shavrey
Makeup Artist
S. Pyaskovskaya
Assistant Makeup Artist
Marianna Ter-Arakelyan
Assistant Makeup Artist
S. Bakonina
Art Department Assistant
Valentina Gvozdeva
Property Master
Nina Kiselyova
Set Designer
A. Meltsayeva
Art Department Assistant
R. Meltseva
Property Master
Tatyana Zotova
Set Designer
R. Melnichuk
Boom Operator
A. Grachikov
Pyrotechnician
Galina Bodrova
Camera Operator
Sergei Bunin
Assistant Camera
Leonid Kazakov
Camera Operator
A. Konyshin
Chief Lighting Technician
Viktor Kulikov
Camera Operator
D. Zotov
Assistant Camera
Nataliya Ivakina
Assistant Costume Designer
Natalya Stroeva
Music Editor
Vsevolod Egorov
Story Editor