A Little Crane

A Little Crane

85 mins | Drama, Romance | April 7, 1969

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...

A Little Crane

85 mins | Drama, Romance | April 7, 1969

A Little Crane
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...
Producers Mosfilm
Original title Журавушка
Directors Nikolai Moskalenko
Writers Dmitri Vasiliu, Mikhail Alekseyev

Cast

Nonna Mordyukova

as Glafira

Tatyana Pelttser

as Nastasya

Rimma Markova

as Avdotya

Armen Dzhigarkhanyan

as Styshnoy

Nikolai Gritsenko

as Markelov

Georgi Zhzhyonov

as father Leonid

Yevgeni Shutov

as Zulya

Aleksei Karpushkin

as Seryozhka

Inga Budkevich

as Marinka

Sergei Kalinin

as granddad

Larisa Kronberg

as Nyura

Emilya Serdyuk

as stewardess

Vladimir Tikhonov

as Sergei Lunin

Boris Yurchenko

as driver

Nikolai Danov

as Sergei Lunin in childhood

Aleksandra Kharitonova

as woman in court (uncredited)

Valentina Telegina

as milkmaid (uncredited)

Pyotr Kiryutkin

as bearded old man in court (uncredited)

Mikhail Rozanov

as komsomolets (uncredited)