

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...
Director
Nikolai MoskalenkoCast

Lyudmila Chursina
Marfa

Nonna Mordyukova
Glafira

Tatyana Pelttser
Nastasya

Rimma Markova
Avdotya

Armen Dzhigarkhanyan
Styshnoy

Nikolai Gritsenko
Markelov

Georgi Zhzhyonov
father Leonid

Yevgeni Shutov
Zulya

Aleksei Karpushkin
Seryozhka

Inga Budkevich
Marinka
Sergei Kalinin
granddad

Larisa Kronberg
Nyura

Emilya Serdyuk
stewardess

Vladimir Tikhonov
Sergei Lunin

Boris Yurchenko
driver
Nikolai Danov
Sergei Lunin in childhood

Elena Volskaya
(uncredited)

Aleksandra Kharitonova
woman in court (uncredited)

Valentina Kravchenko
(uncredited)

Valentina Telegina
milkmaid (uncredited)