29 minutes to break your heart — Soviet style.
Cinematography
Kyiv in grainy black-and-white looks like a memory you never lived.
Acting
Elvira Osipova's Lena — all nervous hope and unspoken everything.
Director
Viktor Gres
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
A rare surviving work from Kyiv's Dovzhenko Film Studios, capturing a thaw-era moment before Soviet cinema hardened.
Director Viktor Gres disappeared from film history after this; no other credits exist.
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