A fascinating and human portrayal of a once-famous fighter pilot and loyal Stalinist named Nadezhda Petrovna. Now a 41-year-old provincial schoolmistress, she has so internalized the military ideas of service and obedience that she cannot adjust to life in peacetime.
1966
HD
85min
Soviet Union
Russian
Larisa Shepitko
Maya Bulgakova
Zhanna Bolotova
Pantelejmon Krymov
Nikolay Grabbe
Yuri Medvedev
Vladimir Gorelov
Leonid Dyachkov
Zhanna Aleksandrova
Sergey Nikonenko
biography
nostalgia
aviation
woman director
school principal
