Based on the novel of Mikhail Alekseyev "Bread — as a Noun." About the fate of a Russian woman who endured all the hardships of war and post-war life. After the war, those few who survived at the front returned to their native village. But Marfa's husband, whom she had been waiting for for so many years, would never return. Marfa, a beautiful and proud woman, remains true to her only love...
as Marfa
as Glafira
as Nastasya
as Avdotya
as Styshnoy
as Markelov
as father Leonid
as Zulya
as Seryozhka
as Marinka
as granddad
as stewardess
as Sergei Lunin
as driver
as Sergei Lunin in childhood
as woman in court (uncredited)
as milkmaid (uncredited)
as bearded old man in court (uncredited)
as komsomolets (uncredited)
as Нюра