Autumn Weddings

Autumn Weddings

1968 · 73 min · ★ 7.3 · Drama

A poetic story about the first love of the village girl Natasha, loyal to the memory of the deceased fiancé. In peacetime, the heroine's fiancé blew up on a land mine that remained on the collective farm field since the war, and her life turned into a nightmare. But sooner or later, dreams end and the world opens again. Pregnant Natasha goes to the institutions, seeking to be signed with the father of the unborn child who died tragically. At the end, after long ordeals, she comes to the conclusion that writing in the marriage book will not change anything in her life.

Directed by Boris Yashin · Written by Viktor Hoviada

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Valentina Telichkina Natasha
Vladimir Safronov Mikhail Nayda
Konstantin Sorokin Uncle Misha
Yevgeni Perov Collective Farm Chairman
Stanislav Borodokin Yura
Inna Kondratyeva Olga Pavlovna
Zinaida Adamovich Natasha's Mother
Vera Yenyutina Mikhail's Mother
Dmitriy Chislov Mikhail's Father
Ekaterina Gradova Marina
Pyotr Lyubeshkin Junior Police Sergeant
Valentina Moldovanova Inna

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