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Girl Seeks Father
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Wikipedia article
'Girl Seeks Father' is a 1959 Soviet drama film that was produced by Yuri Bulychyov at the Belarusfilm, directed by Lev Golub,[http://gp.by/category/news/culture/news72098.html , , ] and which stars Anna Kamenkova, Vladimir Guskov, Nikolai Barmin. Writers: Konstantin Gubarevich, Yevgeny Ryss. In 1959, it was the fifth film in Soviet Union in terms of the box office. It was watched by over 35 million spectators, which makes it the third watched Belarusian film ever.
Plot
The film was set in Russia during World War II and is about a 5-year-old girl searching for her partisan leader father while escaping from the Nazis.
Nazis, trying to catch 5 years old girl to make her their hostage, because her father is the Soviet partisan commander, and young boy trying to save her. For some time, when little baby was lost in the forest alone or when Nazis finally caught two children your hope is almost broken.
Cast
;Credited cast
*Anna Kamenkova as 'Lena'
*Vladimir Guskov as 'Yanka, forester's grandson'
*Nikolai Barmin as 'Panas'
*Vladimir Dorofeyev as 'forester '
*Anna Yegorova as 'Praskovya Ivanovna'
*Yevgeni Grigorev as 'Konstantin Lvovich, Medical Assistant'
*Nina Grebeshkova as 'Anya'
*Konstantin Bartashevich as 'Gunter, German Commandant'
;Rest of cast
*Viktor Uralsky as 'partisan Volodya'
*Yevgeni Polosin as 'The Headmen'
*Ivan Shatillo as 'Commissar'
Awards
* Mar del Plata International Film Festival , [http://www.mardelplatafilmfest.com/en/seccion/3o-festival/3o-festival 3 Edition 1960]. Best Child Performance (Anna Kamenkova).
* The 25th Annual Bengal Film Journalists' Association, 1962 . Ten Best Foreign Films.
References
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