Bountiful Summer

Bountiful Summer

1951 · 87 min · ★ 4.3 · Music, Comedy

The war is over. The Red Army soldier Pyotr tries to find himself in a peaceful life. He takes the place of an accountant, and long-time friend Nazar, who has already grown to the post of the head of a collective farm, helps him in this. Together they achieve high performance indicators of their wards, skillfully solving controversial issues and emerging from confused situations.

Directed by Boris Barnet · Written by Nikolai Dalyokij

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Nikolay Kryuchkov Nazar Protsenko
Nina Arkhipova Vera Goroshko
Mikhail Kuznetsov Pyotr Sereda
Marianna Strizhenova Oksana Podpruzhenko
Viktor Dobrovolsky Ruban
Konstantin Sorokin Philipp Teslyuk
Muza Krepkogorskaya Darka
Anton Dunaisky Anton Prokopchuk
Mykhailo Vysotskyi Svirid Podpruzhenko
Alla Kazanskaya Nadezhda
Viktoriya Germanova Yekaterina Matveyevna
Georgy Gumilevsky Musiy Antonovich

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