Twenty Days Without War
War correspondent Lopatin takes a 20-day-leave from his hard work at the front in 1942. He travels to faraway Tashkent to meet the family of the killed soldier and visit the film set of the screen adaptation of his war-time stories. Lopatin also manages to walk the streets of Tashkent, take part in a factory workers' meeting and have a short-lived love affair. Although with no bombings and fighting, the city dwellers breathe the atmosphere of the ongoing war.
Cast
Yuriy Nikulin
as Major Vasily Nikolaevich Lopatin
Lyudmila Gurchenko
as Nina
Aleksey Petrenko
as Yuri Stroganov
Angelina Stepanova
as Zinaida Antonovna, artistic director of the theater
Mikhail Kononov
as Pasha Rubtsov
Yekaterina Vasilyeva
as Rubtsova
Nikolay Grinko
as Vyacheslav
Lyusyena Ovchinnikova
as Xenia Sergeevna, former wife of Lopatin
Liya Akhedzhakova
as Woman with clocks
Lyudmila Zaytseva
as Lidiya, actress playing a female sniper
