About the film
Winter 1941–42, near Moscow. Colonel Polynin, a serious, tired commander of a fighter regiment, meets Galina Prokofyeva, an actress with a front-line concert troupe.
Their love grows in short meetings between missions and journeys, always under the shadow of war.
A quiet, moving romance written by Konstantin Simonov, with Oleg Yefremov and Anastasia Vertinskaya.
Did you know?
- It is based on a novella by war writer Konstantin Simonov, who co-wrote the script.
- Anastasia Vertinskaya also played Princess Liza in War and Peace.
