Mashenka
1942, Russian. Directed by Yuli Raizman.
Best Soviet Film Since 'Girl from Leningrad'
Lovely telegraph operator Masha Stepanova is a sanitary nurse. During a training alarm, she meets a taxi driver Alexei (Alyosha) Solovyov. He reads verses to a girl and invites her to the theater. But at the appointed time, Alyosha doesn't come, and Mashenka finds him, helps to recover. Young people fell in love with each other, but Alexei was too frivolous, and brings the girl a lot of sorrows and insults. Because of Alexei’s hobby for another girl, Masha breaks up with him. But she will be able to convey her faithful and true-hearted feeling through years of separation and the hardships of wartime, and when they meet again at the front of the Finnish War, Solovyov realizes what a gift of fate was meeting him with this girl.
- Runtime
- 1h 12m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Russian
- Rated
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- Released
- 10 April 1942
- Original title
- Машенька
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Written by
- Sergey Yermolinsky, Yevgeni Gabrilovich
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Mashenka runs 72 minutes (1h 12m).
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Mashenka isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 10 April 1942. (Checked 8 November 2026.)
What movies are like Mashenka?
If you liked Mashenka, try The History of Love, Ship of Fools, Suite Française.
Who directed Mashenka?
Mashenka (1942) was directed by Yuli Raizman and stars Valentina Karavayeva, Mikhail Kuznetsov, Dariya Pankratova.