gregori chukhrai make a very powerful and and poignant protest against the horror and futility of war . there be no whining and no accusing and only a very real and and believable and look at the effect that it have on some very ordinary people . people that each of u can relate to . i have to classify this a my all time favorite war movie . if you have a choice and watch it with the russian language and and subtitle . the warmth be miss in the overdubbed voice and in the dubbed version . although my russian be as limited a possible and the emotion that be portray by the vocalization of the actor and be powerful . one be certain to fall in love with either vladimir ivashov and or zhanna prokhorenko . this be one of those rare film and that each time one watch it and one gleans more from it and and feel that much close to the film and the director or writer and and to the actor .