Twenty Days Without War

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 NikulinMajor Vasily Nikolaevich Lopatin

Lyudmila GurchenkoNina

Aleksey PetrenkoYuri Stroganov

Angelina StepanovaZinaida Antonovna, artistic director of the theater

Mikhail KononovPasha Rubtsov

Yekaterina VasilyevaRubtsova

Mykola HrynkoVyacheslav

Lyusyena OvchinnikovaXenia Sergeevna, former wife of Lopatin

Liya AkhedzhakovaWoman with clocks

Lyudmila ZaytsevaLidiya, actress playing a female sniper

Konstantin SimonovNarrator (voice), screenwriter

Yuriy SolovyovCommander

Rashid SadykovUsman Yusupov, secretary of the Central Committee

Nikolay Mikheev

Vladimir Mishanin