

A glimpse into a few hours in the life of a soloist musician during the siege of Leningrad, in WWII. The Leningrad philharmonic is going to play Tchaikovsky's 5th Symphony, to be broadcast to England. Like his fellow musicians, the soloist is weak and half-starved, and doubts whether he will be able to perform well enough.

Mykola Hrynko
Aleksandr Mihaylovich

Svetlana Smirnova
Pregnant woman in a bath
Viktor Gogolev
Viktor Sergeevich

Lyudmila Arzhannikova

Olga Volkova

Valentina Smirnova

Nora Gryakalova

Kirill Gun

Gelena Ivlieva
Домработница
Youri Radionow
Sergey