Mashenka (1942)
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.
Top Cast
Valentina Karavayeva
Mashenka
Mikhail Kuznetsov
Alyosha
Dariya Pankratova
Klava
Vera Altayskaya
Vera
Georgi Svetlani
uncle Vasya
Nikolai Gritsenko
Kolya
Aleksey Konsovskiy
Muryaga
Viktor Lazarev
driver
Nikolai Khryashchikov
driver
Vladislav Strzhelchik
Finnish Officer
Olga Toropova
Waitress
FAQ about Mashenka
What is Mashenka about?
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…
When was Mashenka released?
Mashenka was released in 1942.
What genres does Mashenka belong to?
Mashenka is categorised as Drama, Romance, War.
Who stars in Mashenka?
The cast of Mashenka includes Valentina Karavayeva, Mikhail Kuznetsov, Dariya Pankratova, Vera Altayskaya, Georgi Svetlani.