WE AWAIT YOUR VICTORIOUS RETURN

Directed by Ilya Trauberg, Aleksandr Medvedkin

1941 / 34min

The first of what became a popular genre of wartime 'film-concerts', consisting of eight musical numbers, strung together by a loose plot. It shows soldiers leaving their village for the front; in their absence, the desolate but resolute young women of the village assume responsibility for the business of the farm