Twenty Days Without War Movie

Original title: Двадцать дней без войны

In Guerman's second film about World War II, the war itself remains offscreen. In the winter of 1942, Soviet army major Lopatin (Yuri Nikulin, a celebrated comic actor and circus performer) is on furlough, delivering the belongings of a fallen comrade to the man's wife in his own hometown of Tashkent. While there, he reunites briefly with his ex-wife and begins a tentative courtship with a lonely seamstress. A work of surprising tenderness (based on the semiautobiographical writings of acclaimed war poet Konstantin Simonov), Twenty Days without War is Guerman's plaintive tribute to those who remained on the homefront. themoviedb