We Await Your Victorious Return (1941)

Director: Aleksandr Medvedkin

The first of what became a popular genre of wartime 'film-concerts', consisting of eight musical numbers, strung together by a loose plot. It shows soldiers leaving their village for the front; in their absence, the desolate but resolute young women of the village assume responsibility for the business of the farm

Cast

Tatyana Govorkova

Khoroshka

Inna Fyodorova

Yekaterina Ivanovna

Boris Chirkov

The Blacksmith

Aleksandra Danilova

Girl

Nina Petropavlovskaya

Nadir Malishevsky

Vyacheslav Gostinsky

Lidiya Smirnova

Galina Frolova