Film

Five Day Rest

1970 · 1h 29m · War · Drama · Romance

IMDb

7.0

In December 1941. For five days from the front line in besieged Leningrad arrives for re-forming company. The soldiers are placed in barracks outside the city. A young soldier Alexei Kazantsev pays attention to the girl Olya. She comes to the barracks every day to see her father, Private Koshkin, who among the St. Petersburg volunteers is going to go to the front. Olya is sick, and from hunger she can hardly stand on her feet. Koshkin gives her his tiny ration, which is given to soldiers. Alexei meets Olga and does his best to save the girl. On the eve of Alexei's return to the front, Olga becomes his wife.

Oleg Efremov

Ivan Lapikov

Nikolai Boyarsky

Aleksandr Mikhaylichenko

Viktor Markin

Sergei Torkachevsky

Anatoly Korolkevich

Svetlana Konovalova

Nikolai Sergeyev

Mikhail Ladygin

Natalia Kuznetsova

• Eduard GavrilovDirector
• Iosif GerasimovScreenplay · Novel
• Irina PetrovaExecutive Producer
• Aleksandr KharitonovDirector of Photography
• Venyamin BasnerOriginal Music Composer
• Natalya BelevtsevaEditor

Release date

February 9, 1970

Status

Released

Original language

Russian

Runtime

1h 29m

Genres

War, Drama, Romance