The war was over. Like many of her female friends, Sasha Potapova was left a widow. It was hard living without a man’s shoulder to lean on, without love and affection, yet no one had ever seen her crying or despairing. For her strong character, the fellow-villagers elected her a collective farm chairwoman. The work, with its cares and worries, helped all but forget about her personal misfortune and woman’s loneliness. And then she fell in love – a bittersweet, unshared love, but happy anyway…
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Nonna Mordyukova
Sasha Potapova
Mikhail Ulyanov
Danilov
Danylo Ilchenko
Egor Lykov
Vasiliy Shukshin
Ivan Lykov
Irina Murzayeva
Sasha's mother
Valentina Vladimirova
Avdotiya
Aleksei Mironov
Guskov
Oleg Anofriev
Nina Beloborodova
Valentin Bryleev
Tatyana Babanina
Mariya Vinogradova
Vladimir Guskov
Ivan Zhevago
Vladimir Smirnov
