Released:
1962-11-02

Overview:
The plot is based on the dramatic fate of the Red Army commander Aleksei Ivanovich Pavlov. Having been captured in January 1942 and being among the displaced persons, he didn't immediately decide to return to the USSR. Having rolled around the foreign country for 17 years, Aleksei nevertheless returned to his homeland. He goes to his brother in the south of the country to Sevastopol. Aleksei accidentally meets the doctor Anna Andreyevna, who was saved from death in besieged Leningrad. She travels by car from Moscow and also to the south, with her daughter Tanya; she suggests he join them. Aleksei tells about his life on the road.

Director:
Sergei Gerasimov

Runtime:
3h 20min

Genre:
Drama

• Cast:
• 
  Nikolay Eryomenko
  as
  Aleksei Ivanovich Pavlov
• 
  Tamara Makarova
  as
  Anna Andreyevna
• 
  Zhanna Bolotova
  as
  Tanya
• 
  Vitali Doronin
  as
  Pyotr Ivanovich Pavlov
• 
  Natalya Medvedeva
  as
  Valentina Sergeyevna