Once There Was a Girl

Name: Once There Was a Girl
Cast: Nina Ivanova, Natalya Zashchipina, Ada Vojtsik, Vera Altayskaya, Lidiya Shtykan

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Woven around the daily lives of two children, nine-year-old Nastenka and five-year-old Katia, this is a story of the 17 months' siege of Leningrad and of the people and families shattered by the war, their homes bombed and destroyed, their lives in a constant anticipation of the advancing German army and air raids.

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Cast & Crew

Director: Viktor EisymontWriter: Vladimir NedobrovoProducers: A. Vladimirov, P. Solovey

Nina Ivanova

as Nastenka

Natalya Zashchipina

as Katya

Ada Vojtsik

as Nastenka's Mother

Vera Altayskaya

as Katya's Mother

Lidiya Shtykan

as Tonya

Aleksandr Larikov

as Makar Ivanovich

Nikolai Korn

as Nastenka's Father

Maria Samoilova

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