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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.

Top Cast

  • Yuriy Nikulin

    Yuriy Nikulin

    Major Vasily Nikolaevich Lopatin

  • Lyudmila Gurchenko

    Lyudmila Gurchenko

    Nina

  • Aleksey Petrenko

    Aleksey Petrenko

    Yuri Stroganov

  • Angelina Stepanova

    Angelina Stepanova

    Zinaida Antonovna, artistic director of the theater

  • Mikhail Kononov

    Mikhail Kononov

    Pasha Rubtsov

  • Yekaterina Vasilyeva

    Yekaterina Vasilyeva

    Rubtsova

  • Mykola Hrynko

    Mykola Hrynko

    Vyacheslav

  • Lyusyena Ovchinnikova

    Lyusyena Ovchinnikova

    Xenia Sergeevna, former wife of Lopatin

  • Liya Akhedzhakova

    Liya Akhedzhakova

    Woman with clocks

Overview

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.

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