Mashenka

Masha Stepanova works as a telegraph operator. She is also a nurse. During a training alarm she meets Alexei Solovyov. Alexei is a taxi driver. He reads her verses and invites her to the theatre. But he does not come at the appointed hour. Masha finds him and helps him recover. The two of them fall in love. But Alexei behaves lightly and causes her sorrow. When he takes up with another girl Masha breaks with him. Years later they meet again at the front of the Finnish war. Dariya Pankratova is in the cast as well. Valentina Karavayeva and Mikhail Kuznetsov take the leads in Yuli Raizman’s Soviet film of 1942.