Film
Whistle Stop
SU- Director
- Boris Barnet
- Year
- 1963
Moscow academician Pavel Pavlovich comes to a picturesque village on the seashore to calmly spend his vacation here. Whiling away the time for sketches, he manages to get acquainted with the local guys, the restless Grishka and the daughter of the foreman Nyuska. Together they build a stove, repair a sewing machine, and reconstruct a telephone switchboard. When Pavel Pavlovich suddenly falls ill, all the villagers take care of him. When the time comes to leave, Pavel Pavlovich understands that in this village far from the capital, he leaves a piece of his heart.
Top cast
Vasili Merkuryev
Pavel Pavlovich
Yekaterina Mazurova
grandmother Tatyana
Nadezhda Rumyantseva
Sima, collective farm accountant
Boris Novikov
collective farm foreman
Ada Berezovskaya
Klavka the milkmaid
Yelizaveta Nikishchikhina
Zoika the saleswoman
Aleksandr Potapov
Ivan the tractor driver
Valeri Ryzhakov
Vasya the driver
Albina Orlovskaya
adjutant woman
Nikolai Bogatyryov
Grishka
Lyudmila Chistyakova
Nyuska
Andrei Titov
partisan
Pyotr Kiryutkin
collective farmer (uncredited)
Lyudmila Marchenko
milkmaid (uncredited)
Directed by
Boris Barnet
Written by
Boris Barnet, Radiy Pogodin