Mashenka

"Best Soviet Film Since 'Girl from Leningrad'"

Nov 20 1942 N/A 1h 17m
Drama, Romance, War

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.

Plot

In 1939, as the air raid sirens sound over Moscow, a young man, Alyosha, falls in love with a telegraph operator called Mashenka.

Written by

Yevgeny Gabrilovich, Sergei Yermolinsky

Directed by

Yuli Raizman

Cast

Valentina Karavayeva, Mikhail Kuznetsov, D. Pankratova

Crew

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Production Countries

Soviet Union

Production Companies

Mosfilm

Languages

Awards

1 win

Scores
# of Votes
320
Average Rating
7.3 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA