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Mashenka

Mashenka

★ 5.7/10•1942•1h 12m•Drama•Romance•War

Best Soviet Film Since 'Girl from Leningrad'

Lovely telegraph operator Masha Stepanova is a sanitary nurse. During a training alarm, she meets a taxi driver Alexei (Alyosha) Solovyov. He reads verses to a girl and invites her to the theater. But at the appointed time, Alyosha doesn't come, and Mashenka finds him, helps to recover. Young people fell in love with each other, but Alexei was too frivolous, and brings the girl a lot of sorrows and insults. Because of Alexei’s hobby for another girl, Masha breaks up with him. But she will be able to convey her faithful and true-hearted feeling through years of separation and the hardships of wartime, and when they meet again at the front of the Finnish War, Solovyov realizes what a gift of fate was meeting him with this girl.

Yuli Raizman · Director

Sergey Yermolinsky · Writer

Yevgeni Gabrilovich · Writer

StatusReleased
Runtime1h 12m
LanguageRU
Release DateApr 10, 1942

Actors

Valentina Karavayeva

Valentina Karavayeva

Mashenka

Mikhail Kuznetsov

Mikhail Kuznetsov

Alyosha

Dariya Pankratova

Klava

Vera Altayskaya

Vera Altayskaya

Vera

Georgi Svetlani

Georgi Svetlani

uncle Vasya

Nikolai Gritsenko

Nikolai Gritsenko

Kolya

Aleksey Konsovskiy

Aleksey Konsovskiy

Muryaga

Viktor Lazarev

Viktor Lazarev

driver

Nikolai Khryashchikov

Nikolai Khryashchikov

driver

Vladislav Strzhelchik

Vladislav Strzhelchik

Finnish Officer

Olga Toropova

Waitress

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