Once There Was a Girl

(1944)

★ 5.7 IMDb · 7 votes

Genres: Family, Drama, War

Year: 1944

Runtime: 74 мин

Country: Soviet Union

Director: Виктор Эйсымонт

Cast: Нина Иванова, Наталья Защипина, Ада Войцик, Вера Алтайская, Лидия Штыкан, Александр Лариков, Николай Корн, Мария Самойлова

Plot

Woven around the daily lives of two children, nine-year-old Nastenka and five-year-old Katia, this is a story of the 17 months' siege of Leningrad and of the people and families shattered by the war, their homes bombed and destroyed, their lives in a constant anticipation of the advancing German army and air raids.