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Clean Ponds
Clean Ponds

Clean Ponds

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Drama

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A poetic biography of a generation of young pre-war and wartime people, based on the works of Yuri Nagibin. Four inseparable friends — Sergei, Nina, Oska and Zhenya — spent all their school childhood on the Clean Ponds, in Moscow. But the school is over, and in their beloved gazebo they dream of the future, swear fidelity to each other and do not yet know that tomorrow war will break out and they will become participants in terrible events …

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Budget

$--

Revenue

$--

Status

Released

Original Language

Russian

Runtime

76 mins

Rating

6/10

Release Date

30 August 1965

Country

Soviet Union

Cast

Aleksandr Zbruev

Aleksandr Zbruev

Sergei Rakitin

Yevghenia Filonova

Yevghenia Filonova

Nina

Lyudmila Gladunko

Lyudmila Gladunko

Zhenya Rumyantseva

Tamara Syomina

Tamara Syomina

Anna Samokhina

Svetlana Svetlichnaya

Svetlana Svetlichnaya

Katya

Vladimir Yevstafyev

Vladimir Yevstafyev

Oska

Eduard Abalov

Eduard Abalov

officer

Nina Agapova

Nina Agapova

Lyubov Kulchitskaya

Yelizaveta Auerbakh

Yelizaveta Auerbakh

Katya's mother

Aleksandra Danilova

Aleksandra Danilova

Dusya

Valeriy Zalivin

Valeriy Zalivin

Tridesyatov's guest

Nikolai Kryukov

Nikolai Kryukov

Lev Matveyevich Rzhanov

Yuri Komarov

Yuri Komarov

Katya's fiance

Nina Menshikova

Nina Menshikova

Sergei's mother

Vyacheslav Nevinnyy

Vyacheslav Nevinnyy

sailor

Arkadi Trusov

Arkadi Trusov

Yenyutin

Galina Frolova

Galina Frolova

switchwoman

Viktor Khokhryakov

Viktor Khokhryakov

Tridesyatov

Yuri Chekulayev

Yuri Chekulayev

doctor

Pavel Shpringfeld

Pavel Shpringfeld

Nina's father

Zoya Vasilkova

Zoya Vasilkova

waitress (uncredited)

Irina Murzayeva

Irina Murzayeva

switchwoman (uncredited)

Arseniy Barskiy

Arseniy Barskiy

host of the competition (uncredited)

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