Overview
War correspondent Lopatin takes a 20-day-leave from his hard work at the front in 1942. He travels to faraway Tashkent to meet the family of the killed soldier and visit the film set of the screen adaptation of his war-time stories. Lopatin also manages to walk the streets of Tashkent, take part in a factory workers' meeting and have a short-lived love affair. Although with no bombings and fighting, the city dwellers breathe the atmosphere of the ongoing war.
Cast
- Yuriy Nikulin as Major Vasily Nikolaevich Lopatin
- Lyudmila Gurchenko as Nina
- Aleksey Petrenko as Yuri Stroganov
- Angelina Stepanova as Zinaida Antonovna, artistic director of the theater
- Mikhail Kononov as Pasha Rubtsov
- Yekaterina Vasilyeva as Rubtsova
- Mykola Hrynko as Vyacheslav
- Lyusyena Ovchinnikova as Xenia Sergeevna, former wife of Lopatin
- Liya Akhedzhakova as Woman with clocks
- Lyudmila Zaytseva as Lidiya, actress playing a female sniper