Languages: Russian, English, French. Subtitles: Russian, English, French, Italian, Spanish, German. Director: Aleksandr Askol'dov. Starring: Leonid Reutov, Rolan Bykov, Nonna Mordyukova, Vasilij Shukshin, Sergej Nikonenko, Raisa Nedashkovskaya, Lyudmila Volynskaya, Otar Koberidze. Awards: Special Jury Prize, FIPRESCI Prize and Ecumenical Jury Prize at the West Berlin IFF, 1988. Commissar Vavilova must leave her post because of her pregnancy and settles in with a large Jewish family. The film potrays the moving details of both her and the family's everyday lives, the beauty of motherhood and the tragedy of the Fratricidal War... The film was banned by Soviet censors for its strong references to the Holocaust but was also the recipient of many awards.
