Story :Based on the novel of Mikhail Alekseyev "Bread — as a Noun."
About the fate of a Russian woman who endured all the hardships of war and post-war life.
After the war, those few who survived at the front returned to their native village. But Marfa's husband, whom she had been waiting for for so many years, would never return. Marfa, a beautiful and proud woman, remains true to her only love...
Cast
Lyudmila ChursinaMarfa
Nonna MordyukovaGlafira
Tatyana PelttserNastasya
Rimma MarkovaAvdotya
Armen DzhigarkhanyanStyshnoy
Nikolai GritsenkoMarkelov
Georgi Zhzhyonovfather Leonid
Yevgeni ShutovZulya
Aleksei KarpushkinSeryozhka
Inga BudkevichMarinka
Sergei Kaliningranddad
Emilya Serdyukstewardess
Vladimir TikhonovSergei Lunin
Boris Yurchenkodriver
Nikolai DanovSergei Lunin in childhood
Aleksandra Kharitonovawoman in court (uncredited)
Valentina Teleginamilkmaid (uncredited)
Pyotr Kiryutkinbearded old man in court (uncredited)