Director Konstantin Lopushansky

Script Konstantin Lopushansky, Albina Shulgina

Camera Anatoly Lapshov

Design Vladimir Svetozarov

Music Peter Tchaikovsky, Olivier Messian, Evgeny Irshai

Cast: Nikolai Grinko, Lyudmila Arzhanikova, Svetlana Smirnova, Kirill Gun, Nora Gryakalova, Gelena Ivlieva, Victor Gogolev, Valentina Smirnova

Production Lenfilm Studio, the Higher Courses for Scriptwriters & Film Directors

Winter 1942. Leningrad is in blockade. Empty streets, frozen corps, broken windows. A man in a long black coat is crossing the city for some cereals to gain vital energy. Tomorrow he should play solo on a French horn at the concert which will be broadcasted to England.

 

* Grand-Prix of the Bilbao International Festival of Documentary and Short Films, Spain

* Prize for the Best Director at the Henri Langlois International Festival in Tours, France

* Prize of the State Film Committee of the Ukrainian SSR for the best director and Jury Diploma at the Molodist Festival in Kiev

* Main prize of the II festival of Moscow young filmmakers