On the Bank of a Large River
1981, Russian. Directed by Nikolai Gusarov.
A young 19-year old girl Anastasia (O.Bobyleva) comes to a big Siberian construction site. She dreams of being a welder, but at the moment there are no vacancies, and she has to begin her labor activity in a canteen. And after a local kinder garden is left without a mentor, nobody can fancy a better candidate that Nastya. She loves kids, and the main thing is that the feeling is mutual. Once during a storm an accident happens a motor-launch, carrying workers across a river, crashes. Three children become orphans. Nastya doesnt let the construction head send them to the orphanage and decides to adopt them.
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- Language
- Russian
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- Released
- 1 June 1981
- Original title
- На берегу большой реки
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Written by
- Вера Кудрявцева, Vladimir Lobanov
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Who directed On the Bank of a Large River?
On the Bank of a Large River (1981) was directed by Nikolai Gusarov and stars Olga Sirina, Vladimir Kashirin, Lyubov Reymer.