''Peace to Him Who Enters'' (russian: Мир входящему, Mir vkhodyashchemu) is a 1961 Soviet

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written and directed by Aleksandr Alov and

Vladimir Naumov Vladimir Naumovich Naumov (russian: Влади́мир Нау́мович Нау́мов; 6 December 1927 – 29 November 2021) was a Russian film director and writer. Naumov was named People’s Artist of the USSR in 1983. He was a schoolmate o ...

. Set in

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, it tells the story of three Soviet soldiers who try to rescue a trapped pregnant German woman by taking her on a dangerous drive to a hospital.

Plot

Lieutenant Ivlev from the

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who has just graduated from school, arrives for duty in Berlin a few days before the surrender of Germany in

. In the city destroyed by conflict, the soldiers find a pregnant woman, a German. The commanders of their division decide to help her get to the hospital. Lieutenant Ivlev is charged to accompany the pregnant German woman to the rear, giving him a chauffeur and a shell-shocked soldier, who also need to be sent to the hospital. Thus, senior officers want to save the new lieutenant from possible destruction in Berlin at the end of the war. As a result of the long and arduous journey, the protagonist has matured and become a completely different person. Along with the driver, a soldier of the American army he met along the way, they help the German woman, bringing her to a safe place. The war ends, marked by the birth of a baby in a new, peaceful world. The final shot is of a newborn infant urinating on a pile of now unnecessary, discarded weapons.

Cast

* Viktor Avdyushko as Ivan Yamshchikov *

Aleksandr Demyanenko Aleksandr Sergeyevich Demyanenko (russian: Алекса́ндр Серге́евич Демья́ненко; May 30, 1937 – August 22, 1999) was a Soviet and Russian actor. He was given the honorary distinction of People's Artist of the RSFSR. H ...

as Shura Ivlev *Stanislav Khitrov as Pavel Vasilyevich Rukavitsyn *Lidiya Shaporenko as Barbara, German *Vera Bokadoro as French *

Nikolai Grinko Nikolai Grigoryevich Grinko or Mykola Hryhorovych Hrynko ( uk, Микола Григорович Гринько; russian: Никола́й Григо́рьевич Гринько́; 22 May 1920, Kherson – 10 April 1989, Kyiv was a Soviet ...

as American driverКак играть гения
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Andrei Fajt Andrei Andreyevich Fajt (russian: Андрей Андреевич Файт; 29 August 1903 – 17 January 1976) was a Soviet film actor. He appeared in 44 films between 1925 and 1976. He was born in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia and died in Moscow ...

as Serbian *Aleksandr Kuznetsov as Slava (uncredited) *Stepan Krylov as Lieutenant Colonel Chernyayev *Vladimir Marenkov as foreman * Erwin Knausmüller as German officer *Nikolai Khryashchikov as wounded man in

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(uncredited)

Awards

The film received the Special Jury Prize for Best Director and the Pasinetti Award (prize of Italian critics for the best foreign film) at the 22nd Venice International Film Festival.

References

External links

* * 1961 drama films 1961 films 1960s Russian-language films Films directed by Aleksandr Alov Films directed by Vladimir Naumov Venice Grand Jury Prize winners Mosfilm films Soviet black-and-white films Soviet World War II films Soviet drama films {{1960s-drama-film-stub