Yevdokiya

Yevdokiya

101 mins | Drama | April 17, 1961

On the outskirts of the provincial town, Yevdokim and Yevdokiya live, raising foster children. Yevdokim works at a factory, Yevdokiya is a housewife. The family seems to be safe and happy: the only trouble is that Yevdokiya cannot forget the love of her youth. This Yevdokim cannot stand and offers Yevdokiya freedom, while he will remain with the children. But all these contradictions are drowned in mutual love for children and for each other.

Yevdokiya

101 mins | Drama | April 17, 1961

Yevdokiya
On the outskirts of the provincial town, Yevdokim and Yevdokiya live, raising foster children. Yevdokim works at a factory, Yevdokiya is a housewife. The family seems to be safe and happy: the only trouble is that Yevdokiya cannot forget the love of her youth. This Yevdokim cannot stand and offers Yevdokiya freedom, while he will remain with the children. But all these contradictions are drowned in mutual love for children and for each other.
IMDb rating 7.6
Producers Gorky Film Studios
Original title Евдокия
Directors Tatyana Lioznova
Writers Vera Panova

Cast

Lyudmila Khityaeva

as Yevdokiya

Nikolai Lebedev

as Yevdokim

Lyubov Basova

as Natasha in a childhood

Olga Narovchatova

as Natasha in a youth

Yuri Akhmadulin

as Andrei in a childhood

Yevgeni Anufriyev

as Andrei

Aleksandr Barsov

as Pavel in a childhood

Vladimir Ivashov

as Pavel

Yelena Pavlenko

as Katya in a childhood

Mikhail Dyakov

as Sashenka in a childhood

Aleksandr Galchenkov

as Sashenka

Pyotr Konstantinov

as Avdeyev

Vera Altayskaya

as Anna Shkapidar

Valentin Zubkov

as Porokhin

Ivan Ryzhov

as Shestyorkin

Yelena Maksimova

as Maryushka

Mariya Lvova

as Nastya

Ayrat Arslanov

as Akhmet

Anatoliy Dudorov

as judge

Pyotr Savin

as host of the meeting

Georgi Shapovalov

as Timofeyev

Kseniya Kozmina

as Shestyorkina

Valentina Belyayeva

as Yevdokiya's friend

Viktor Kolpakov

as photographer (uncredited)

Inna Fyodorova

as delegate from the women's Department (uncredited)

Stanislav Mikhin

as komsomol organizer of the plant (uncredited)

Grigory Mikhaylov

as awarding person (uncredited)

Anastasiya Filippova

as duty watchwoman at the factory (uncredited)

Lidiya Korolyova

as hotel receptionist (uncredited)