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Feature film — 1961

Machinist Drove the Trains (1961)

6.0War — Drama

Olga, who was taken to the West by Hitler's invaders, works as a switchman at a railway station. Echelons with prisoners of war - convicts - pass by her every day. Olga gets acquainted with the machinist Fyodor and with his help organizes the escape of her camp mates. But the plan fails, and the escapees are shot. Fyodor, who miraculously survived, gets to the homeland. And after the war, chance again brings him together with Olga, when the hero with severe burns after an accident falls into the hospital...

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Odessa Film Studio

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Director: Viktor Zhilin

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Cast & crew

Leonid Kuravlyov as Yasha

Leonid Kuravlyov

Yasha

Zinaida Sorochinskaya as Katya

Zinaida Sorochinskaya

Katya

Georgi Zhzhyonov as Ivan Sereda

Georgi Zhzhyonov

Ivan Sereda

Grigoriy Gay as Fyodor Ivanovich

Grigoriy Gay

Fyodor Ivanovich

Lyudmila Lyulko as Rucheva Olga Nikolaevna

Lyudmila Lyulko

Rucheva Olga Nikolaevna

Anna Dubrovina as Sanya

Anna Dubrovina

Sanya

Svetlana Konovalova as Galya

Svetlana Konovalova

Galya

Vladimir Yemelyanov as Gestapo investigator

Vladimir Yemelyanov

Gestapo investigator

Yuri Gorobets as Police captain

Yuri Gorobets

Police captain