We Await Your Victorious Return

Directed by Aleksandr Medvedkin and Ilya Trauberg

With Tatyana Govorkova, Inna Fyodorova, Boris Chirkov, Aleksandra Danilova and Nina Petropavlovskaya

The first of what became a popular genre of wartime 'film-concerts', consisting of eight musical numbers, strung together by a loose plot. It shows soldiers leaving their village for the front; in their absence, the desolate but resolute young women of the village assume responsibility for the business of the farm