Mashenka

Apr 10, 1942

1h 12m

★ 5.5

Best Soviet Film Since 'Girl from Leningrad'

Overview

Lovely telegraph operator Masha Stepanova is a sanitary nurse. During a training alarm, she meets a taxi driver Alexei (Alyosha) Solovyov. He reads verses to a girl and invites her to the theater. But at the appointed time, Alyosha doesn't come, and Mashenka finds him, helps to recover. Young people fell in love with each other, but Alexei was too frivolous, and brings the girl a lot of sorrows and insults. Because of Alexei’s hobby for another girl, Masha breaks up with him. But she will be able to convey her faithful and true-hearted feeling through years of separation and the hardships of wartime, and when they meet again at the front of the Finnish War, Solovyov realizes what a gift of fate was meeting him with this girl.

Genres

Drama

Romance

War

Production Companies

Mosfilm

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Cast

Mashenka

Valentina Karavayeva

Alyosha

Mikhail Kuznetsov

Klava

Dariya Pankratova

Vera

Vera Altayskaya

uncle Vasya

Georgi Svetlani

Kolya

Nikolai Gritsenko

Muryaga

Aleksey Konsovskiy

driver

Viktor Lazarev

driver

Nikolai Khryashchikov

white finish officer

Vladislav Strzhelchik

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