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Twenty Days Without War (1977)
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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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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Genre:War, Drama
Written By:Konstantin Simonov
In Theaters:10/24/1977
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Runtime:101 minutes
Studio:Lenfilm
Cast
Aleksei German
Director
Yuriy Nikulin
Major Vasily Nikolaevich Lopatin
Lyudmila Gurchenko
Nina
Aleksey Petrenko
Yuri Stroganov
Angelina Stepanova
Zinaida Antonovna, artistic director of the theater
Mikhail Kononov
Pasha Rubtsov
Yekaterina Vasilyeva
Rubtsova
Mykola Hrynko
Vyacheslav
Lyusyena Ovchinnikova
Xenia Sergeevna, former wife of Lopatin
Liya Akhedzhakova
Woman with clocks
Lyudmila Zaytseva
Lidiya, actress playing a female sniper
Konstantin Simonov
Narrator (voice), screenwriter
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