A fake marriage becomes inconveniently real when kindness turns into something messier.
At the beginning of the 1941 war, a young talented artist Igor and his theater were evacuated to Tashkent. Here he meets music teacher Olga, who is seriously ill with malaria. Igor understands that only treatment in the capital will save the girl. But they are allowed into Moscow only on special passes. And then Igor almost by force drags Olga to the registry office. Feeling responsible for the girl, Igor begins to patronize her more and more...
Acting
Belokhvostikova's fever-delirium vulnerability is devastating
Score
Bulat Okudzhava's guitar cameo warms the whole thing
Direction
Mkrtchyan turns bureaucratic desperation into romance
Director
Albert Mkrtchyan
Natalya Belokhvostikova
Olga Kalinkina
Igor Kostolevskiy
Igor Voloshin
Ernst Romanov
theater director
Bulat Okudzhava
passenger
Yelena Sanayeva
Igor's sister
Aleksandr Shvorin
Kuchevskiy
Nikolai Prokopovich
ensemble chief
Vadim Aleksandrov
Volnov
Tamara Sovchi
Volnova
Valentina Ananina
nurse
Larisa Belogurova
policewoman
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