
Based on the novel of Mikhail Alekseyev "Bread — as a Noun." About the fate of a Russian woman who endured all the hardships of war and post-war life. After the war, those few who survived at the front returned to their native village. But Marfa's husband, whom she had been waiting for for so many years, would never return. Marfa, a beautiful and proud woman, remains true to her only love...

as Marfa

as Glafira

as Nastasya

as Avdotya

as Styshnoy

as Markelov

as father Leonid

as Zulya

as Seryozhka

as Marinka

as granddad

as Nyura

as stewardess

as Sergei Lunin

as driver

as Sergei Lunin in childhood

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as woman in court (uncredited)

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as milkmaid (uncredited)

as bearded old man in court (uncredited)

as komsomolets (uncredited)

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