Movie: A Little Crane

Top 10 Billed Cast

Lyudmila Chursina
Людмила Чурсина

Marfa

Nonna Mordyukova
Нонна Мордюкова

Glafira

Tatyana Pelttser
Татьяна Пельтцер

Nastasya

Rimma Markova
Римма Маркова

Avdotya

Armen Dzhigarkhanyan
Արմեն Բորիսի Ջիգարխանյան

Styshnoy

Nikolai Gritsenko
Николай Гриценко

Markelov

Georgi Zhzhyonov
Георгий Жжёнов

father Leonid

Yevgeni Shutov
Евгений Шутов

Zulya

Aleksei Karpushkin
Алексей Карпушкин

Seryozhka

Inga Budkevich
Инга Будкевич

Marinka

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    Based on the novel of Mikhail Alekseyev "Bread — as a Noun." About the fate of a Russian woman who endured all the hardships of war and post-war life. After the war, those few who survived at the front returned to their native village. But Marfa's husband, whom she had been waiting for for so many years, would never return. Marfa, a beautiful and proud woman, remains true to her only love...

  • Release Date

    1969-04-07

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    5.625

  • Rating:

    2.8 starts
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  • Languages:

    Pусский
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