Annushka
The main character, Anna Denisova, is a simple Russian woman, on whose shoulders all the hardships of wartime fell. Like all her compatriots, Annushka did everything in her power to bring Victory Day closer. In this war, she lost her husband, Pyotr, but managed to save the lives of her three children — Sasha, Nina and Granata. The trials of Annushka didn't end with the end of the war. In the first years of peace, all survivors had to survive the famine and spend their last strength on rebuilding the country.
Boris Barnet
Efraim Sevela
Casts & Crew
Irina Skobtseva
Anastasiya Georgiyevskaya
Boris Babochkin
Galina Tokareva
Lev Barashkov
Eduard Martsevich
Olga Aroseva
Elena Korolyova
Tatyana Malysheva
Olga Malysheva
Sergei Karnaukhov
Pavel Boriskin
Tatyana Sergeyeva
Igor Volskiy
Lev Zolotukhin
Stanislav Chekan
Ivan Kashirin
Anatoly Vedyonkin
Valentina Vladimirova
Ivan Koval-Samborsky
Mariya Kremnyova
Alevtina Rumyantseva
Inga Budkevich
Ecaterina Malcoci
Yevgeni Morgunov
Nina Menshikova
Zoya Isayeva
Nadezhda Samsonova
Olga Shakhova
Vera Bendina
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