We Await Your Victorious Return
About We Await Your Victorious Return
Mosfilm's first wartime concert film strings songs on a village story. The men leave for the front. The women who stay take on the farm work, and the numbers follow them. Boris Chirkov plays a blacksmith and Inna Fyodorova a schoolteacher, Ekaterina Ivanovna.
Cast & crew
More about We Await Your Victorious Return
Aleksandr Medvedkin and Ilya Trauberg directed. Medvedkin wrote the script. Konstantin Kuznetsov and Timofei Lebeshev photographed it, and Vladimir Balluzek designed the sets. The Soviet premiere was 30 September 1941.
Themes
Background
It opened in the fourth month of the German invasion and was the first of the wartime concert films Mosfilm turned out.
Look
Konstantin Kuznetsov and Timofei Lebeshev shot both the village linking scenes and the staged musical numbers.
Music
Tikhon Khrennikov and Aleksandr Aleksandrov supplied songs, among them Sacred War and Khrennikov's farewell number.
Notes
- The Russian title is Мы ждём вас с победой.
- The program includes Aleksandr Aleksandrov's Sacred War and Tikhon Khrennikov's farewell song, plus Go, Beloved, At Dawn, and defense chastushki.
- Tatyana Govorkova plays Khoroshka. Lidiya Smirnova plays a collective-farm woman.
- A circulating copy runs 33 minutes and 55 seconds.
Scenes
- The men leave the village while the concert numbers take over the story.
