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Mashenka (1942)

Original title: Машенька

1942-04-10 · 1h 12m · RU
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Best Soviet Film Since 'Girl from Leningrad'

Lovely telegraph operator Masha Stepanova is a sanitary nurse. During a training alarm, she meets a taxi driver Alexei (Alyosha) Solovyov. He reads verses to a girl and invites her to the theater. But at the appointed time, Alyosha doesn't come, and Mashenka finds him, helps to recover. Young people fell in love with each other, but Alexei was too frivolous, and brings the girl a lot of sorrows and insults. Because of Alexei’s hobby for another girl, Masha breaks up with him. But she will be able to convey her faithful and true-hearted feeling through years of separation and the hardships of wartime, and when they meet again at the front of the Finnish War, Solovyov realizes what a gift of fate was meeting him with this girl.

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Yevgeni GabrilovichWriterYuli RaizmanDirectorSergey YermolinskyWriter

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Valentina KaravayevaValentina KaravayevaMashenkaMikhail KuznetsovMikhail KuznetsovAlyoshaDariya PankratovaDariya PankratovaKlavaVera AltayskayaVera AltayskayaVeraGeorgi SvetlaniGeorgi Svetlaniuncle VasyaNikolai GritsenkoNikolai GritsenkoKolyaAleksey KonsovskiyAleksey KonsovskiyMuryagaViktor LazarevViktor LazarevdriverNikolai KhryashchikovNikolai KhryashchikovdriverVladislav StrzhelchikVladislav Strzhelchikwhite finish officer

Keywords

World war iiFinnish winter warPre-war

Movie DNA

Genre affinityDrama · War · RomanceTheme affinityWorld War Ii · Finnish Winter War · Pre WarMood preferenceRomanceDialogue densityDramaPacingShortEmotional intensityWar · Romance · World War Ii

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Frequently asked questions about Mashenka

What is Mashenka about?

Lovely telegraph operator Masha Stepanova is a sanitary nurse. During a training alarm, she meets a taxi driver Alexei (Alyosha) Solovyov. He reads verses to a girl and invites her to the theater. But at the appointed time, Alyosha doesn't come, and Mashenka finds him, helps to recover. Young people fell in love with each other, but Alexei was too frivolous, and brings the girl a lot of sorrows and insults. Because of Alexei’s hobby for another girl, Masha breaks up with him. But she will be able to convey her faithful and true-hearted feeling through years of separation and the hardships of wartime, and when they meet again at the front of the Finnish War, Solovyov realizes what a gift of fate was meeting him with this girl.

How long is Mashenka?

Mashenka has a runtime of 72 minutes.