Alyonka

Overview

Set in 1955 when many migrated from Russia to the Steppes of Kazakhstan, this is the trip back to the Canal from the frontier and farms by a number of people who tell their settler stories. Alyonka Muratova is a winsome 13 year old who talks Dmitry Prokovich, the chief mechanic for the Soviet, into giving up his seat in the truck to a young mother with her infant daughter. Then Alyonka and Dmitry share the back of the open truck with a young woman, newly graduated dentist who has not been able to find a position, Stefan, a hitchhiker with a dog who hopes his upper-class wife will return to him and the countryside, and Vasselina Petrovolka, a woman who lost one of her twin daughters in a riding accident by the river shortly after they arrived, and now is returning to tell the other twin of her sister's fate. A warm hearted look at common folks traveling in the frontier.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

March 22, 1962

Original language

Russian

Spoken languages

Russian

Countries

Soviet Union

Production

Mosfilm

Cast

Natalya Ovodova,Irina Zarubina,Vasiliy Shukshin,Erast Garin,Nikolay Kryuchkov,Yevgeni Shutov,Maya Menglet,Natalya Seleznyova,Nikolai Bogolyubov,Anatoli Grachyovand 8 more

Director

Boris Barnet

Writer

Sergei Antonov,N. Rudakova

Producer

Viktor Biyazi

Cinematography

Igor Chernykh

Music

Kirill Molchanov

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0054619