The Great Patriotic War. Young soldier Alyosha Skvortsov is given a few days off so that he can visit his mother. On the way to his native village, he meets people whom he cannot pass by he helps everyone, he has no right to refuse anyone. And the days given to him to meet his mother are melting before our eyes... There are almost no battle scenes in the film, because war is not only death, war is also such a life.

IMDb rating: 8,2

Year of production: 1959

Director: Chukhrai Grigory
Writers: Ezhov Valentin, Chukhrai Grigory
Composer: Ziv Michael
DOP: Nikolaev Vladimir, Savelyeva Era
Production Designer: Boris Nemechek

Cast: Zhanna Prokhorenko, Evgeny Evstigneev, Evgeny Urbansky, Vladimir Pokrovsky, Evgeny Teterin, Vladimir Ivashov, Georgy Yumatov, Antonina Maksimova, Valentina Telegina, Gennady Yukhtin, Elza Lezhdey, Maria Kremneva, Nikolai Kryuchkov