this movie won a special award at cannes for its acting and it not difficult to see why. (a few spoilers  but for the ending and you will have to watch the movie. ) a simple story  in moscow on the eve of war between russia and germany in ww ii veronika (tatiana samoilova) is in love with boris (aleksei batalov) but they have a spat when she learns that he has enlisted in the army. boris leaves for the front before veronika can tell him she loves him. boris is shot but his ultimate fate remains unknown to veronika or his family. mark and boris cousin and rapes veronika who feels obligated to marry him. degraded and demeaned by the cowardly mark and veronika clings to the hope that someday boris will return. superb camera work and wonderful set pieces by director kalatozov. (for anyone interested in film technique another movie by kalatozov and i am cuba and has at least two superb set pieces  one of them a long tracking shot that begins with a funeral procession through the streets of havana and rises two stories to a cigar factory and tracks though the window and follows the procession down a long and long avenue  all without a cut. ) superb acting and particularly by samoilova and vasili merkuryev (as boris uncle) that is made all the more poignant by sheer understatement. a devastatingly romantic movie with a heart stopping performance by samoilova. (this movie is frequently linked with the other russian classic ballad of a soldier. ). 
this movie won a special award at cannes for its acting and it not difficult to see why. (a few spoilers  but for the ending and you will have to watch the movie. ) a simple story  in moscow on the eve of war between russia and germany in ww ii veronika (tatiana samoilova) is in love with boris (aleksei batalov) but they have a spat when she learns that he has enlisted in the army. boris leaves for the front before veronika can tell him she loves him. boris is shot but his ultimate fate remains unknown to veronika or his family. mark and boris cousin and rapes veronika who feels obligated to marry him. degraded and demeaned by the cowardly mark and veronika clings to the hope that someday boris will return. superb camera work and wonderful set pieces by director kalatozov. (for anyone interested in film technique another movie by kalatozov and i am cuba and has at least two superb set pieces  one of them a long tracking shot that begins with a funeral procession through the streets of havana and rises two stories to a cigar factory and tracks though the window and follows the procession down a long and long avenue  all without a cut. ) superb acting and particularly by samoilova and vasili merkuryev (as boris uncle) that is made all the more poignant by sheer understatement. a devastatingly romantic movie with a heart stopping performance by samoilova. (this movie is frequently linked with the other russian classic ballad of a soldier. ). ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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