Wait for Me (1943 film)

Wait for Me
Directed by	Aleksandr Stolper Boris Ivanov
Written by	Konstantin Simonov Aleksandr Stolper
Starring	Boris Blinov Valentina Serova Lev Sverdlin
Cinematography	Samuil Rubashkin
Edited by	Yevgeniya Abdirkina
Music by	Nikolai Kryukov
Production company	Mosfilm
Release date	1 November 1943
Running time	90 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

Wait for Me (Russian: Жди меня, romanized: Zhdi menya) is a 1943 Soviet war drama film directed by Boris Ivanov and Aleksandr Stolper and starring Boris Blinov, Valentina Serova and Lev Sverdlin.

The film's art direction was by Artur Berger and Vladimir Kamsky.

Synopsis

Three friends, one journalist Misha Weinstein and two pilots, Major Nikolai Yermolov and Andrei Panov, promise each other to meet after the war.

During one of the reconnaissance missions the plane gets shot down by the Nazis, and the two pilot friends take refuge in an abandoned hut where they decide to defend themselves to the very last breath. But the commander orders Weinstein to deliver intelligence to the front line, and he ends up making his way to his own people using only one gun. From the ones left in the hut only Yermolov survives, who makes his way to the partisans and becomes a commander of one of the units. At this time, everyone including his friends think that Nicholas has died. Only his wife Lisa does not want to believe this.

Weinstein is sent behind enemy lines, to interview a successful guerrilla commander, in whom he unexpectedly discovers his old friend. On this occasion, the guerrillas send the news to his wife. But the plane, in which Misha Weinstein is flying, gets shot down and the correspondent dies. The letter does not reach its destination.

But when Yermolov returns home, he meets his wife, who in spite of everything has waited for him all this time.

Cast

• Boris Blinov as Nikolai Yermolov
• Valentina Serova as Lisa
• Lev Sverdlin as Misha Weinstein
• Mikhail Nazvanov as Andrei Panov
• Nina Zorskaya
• Yelena Tyapkina as Mariya
• Andrei Apsolon as Gunner
• Lyudmila Glazova
• Pavel Geraga as Fedya
• Andrey Martynov as Partisan
• Ekaterina Sipavina as Pasha

Bibliography

• Rollberg, Peter. Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema. Scarecrow Press, 2008.

External links

• Wait for Me at IMDb