
Plot
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.
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Cast

Yuriy Nikulin
Major Vasily Nikolaevich Lopatin

Lyudmila Gurchenko
Nina

Aleksey Petrenko
Yuri Stroganov

Angelina Stepanova
Zinaida Antonovna, artistic director of the theater

Mikhail Kononov
Pasha Rubtsov

Yekaterina Vasilyeva
Rubtsova

Nikolay Grinko
Vyacheslav

Lyusyena Ovchinnikova
Xenia Sergeevna, former wife of Lopatin

Liya Akhedzhakova
Woman with clocks

Lyudmila Zaytseva
Lidiya, actress playing a female sniper

Konstantin Simonov
Narrator (voice), screenwriter

Yuriy Solovyov
Commander

Rashid Sadykov
Usman Yusupov, secretary of the Central Committee

Nikolay Mikheev

Vladimir Mishanin

Vladimir Suvorov