Movie: Once There Was a Girl

Top 8 Billed Cast

Nina Ivanova
Нина Иванова

Nastenka

Natalya Zashchipina
Наталья Защипина

Katya

Ada Vojtsik
Ада Войцик

Nastenka's Mother

Vera Altayskaya
Вера Алтайская

Katya's Mother

Lidiya Shtykan
Лидия Штыкан

Tonya

Aleksandr Larikov
Александр Лариков

Makar Ivanovich

Nikolai Korn
Николай Корн

Nastenka's Father

Maria Samoilova
Мария Самойлова

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    Woven around the daily lives of two children, nine-year-old Nastenka and five-year-old Katia, this is a story of the 17 months' siege of Leningrad and of the people and families shattered by the war, their homes bombed and destroyed, their lives in a constant anticipation of the advancing German army and air raids.

  • Release Date

    1944-12-18

  • Average

    5.714

  • Rating:

    2.9 starts
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  • Languages:

    Pусский

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