Twenty Days Without War

Twenty Days Without War (1976)

Двадцать дней без войны

War correspondent Lopatin takes a 20-day-leave from his hard work at the front in 1942. He travels to faraway Tashkent to meet the family of the killed soldier and visit the film set of the screen adaptation of his war-time stories. Lopatin also manages to walk the streets of Tashkent, take part in a factory workers' meeting and have a short-lived love affair. Although with no bombings and fighting, the city dwellers breathe the atmosphere of the ongoing war.

Date of release
1976-11-08
TMDB
6.6 / 10 (38)
Runtime
1h 41m
Genres
War, Drama
Director
Aleksei German

Casting

Interesting facts

Twenty Days Without War is a 1976 Soviet film based on a story by Konstantin Simonov, directed by Aleksey German and starring Yuri Nikulin and Lyudmila Gurchenko.

Production

The film was based on the novel and screenplay of Konstantin Simonov (1915-1979), a military journalist who wrote the famous poem "Wait for Me" during World War II in 1941.

The film was mostly shot in black and white, or very muted color, as looking aged to be visually closed to that wartime.

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