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5.7 1h 12m

Mashenka

"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.

Top Cast

  • Valentina Karavayeva

    Valentina Karavayeva

    Mashenka

  • Mikhail Kuznetsov

    Mikhail Kuznetsov

    Alyosha

  • Dariya Pankratova

    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

Overview

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.

Rating

5.7 / 10
12 Reviews
2 Popular

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