When peasant Georgy Makharashvili hears that his soldier son is lying wounded in a hospital, he sets out to visit him. However, unknown to him, his son has been sent back to the front. Reluctant to return home and in a vain attempt to locate his boy, Georgy joins the Red Army in it's unrelenting push to the west.
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THE FATHER OF A SOLDIER - Soviet War Film (Jariskatsis mama) - FilmDoo
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Cast
Sergo Zakariadze
Giorgiy Makharashvili
Vladimir Privaltsev
Senior sergeant Nikiforov
Aleksandr Nazarov
Arkadiy Ershov, soldier
Aleksandr Lebedev
Nikolay Nazarov, soldier
Vladimir Kolokoltsev
Grisha, soldier
Yuri Drozdov
Vova, soldier
Ivan Kosykh
Accordionist
Viktor Kosykh
Vasiliy Dmitrievich, boy on the cart
Viktor Uralsky
Sailor without legs
Ketevan Bochorishvili
Mariya, Georgiy's wife
Vladimir Pitsek
Hospital registrar
Pyotr Lyubeshkin
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