Solo
Dec 01 1980
•0h 26m
•Drama, War
Lopushansky's second film focuses on a few hours in the life of a soloist musician during the siege of Leningrad, in WWII. The Leningrad philharmonic is going to play Tchaikovsky's 5th Symphony, which is to be broadcast to England. The soloist, like his fellow musicians, is weak and half-starved, and doubts whether he will be able to perform well enough.
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Nikolay Grinko
Aleksandr Mihaylovich
Svetlana Smirnova
Pregnant woman in a bath
Viktor Gogolev
Viktor Sergeevich
Lyudmila Arzhannikova
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