The Return of Vasili Bortnikov

Year: 1953

Runtime: 82 mins

Language: Russian

Director: Vsevolod Pudovkin

Drama

After fighting in World War II, a seasoned veteran returns to civilian life and to the collective farm he once managed, only to discover that his wife has remarried in his absence. He must confront personal loss and the difficulty of readjusting to peacetime. The story is adapted from Galina Nikolayeva’s novel “The Harvest.”

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