The Girl from Leningrad
About The Girl from Leningrad
During the Finnish war, young women sign on at a Red Cross office as nurses for a front hospital. Natasha Matveeva goes so she can be near her fiancé, Lieutenant Sergei Korovin. The hospital building is not ready. They clean it, haul water, and make up beds. The wounded arrive. Natasha is given the scout Andrei Morozov, a man the newspapers have already written about. She sits with him, reads War and Peace, and sings.
Cast & crew
More about The Girl from Leningrad
Viktor Eisymont directed. Sergey Mikhalkov and Mikhail Rosenberg wrote it. Vladimir Rapoport photographed it. Vissarion Shebalin wrote the music. The Russian title is Frontovye podrugi, Frontline Girlfriends. It was released in 1941. Zoya Fyodorova plays Natasha. Andrei Abrikosov plays Sergei. Boris Blinov plays Morozov.
Themes
Background
The story is set in the Soviet-Finnish war of 1939–1940. The film came out in 1941.
Look
Vladimir Rapoport photographed the hospital the nurses have to open themselves.
Music
Vissarion Shebalin wrote the score.
Notes
- The war in the film is the Finnish war, the Winter War, not the later German invasion.
- Natasha chooses the front because Sergei is already there.
- Morozov is assigned to the heavy-casualty ward.
- Natalya Konchalovskaya is credited with lyrics on some crew lists.
Scenes
- The volunteers find the hospital still shut and start cleaning it.
- Natasha reads War and Peace to Morozov.
