''Six P.M.'' is the 1946 American release title of the 1944 Soviet World War II film ''At 6 P.M. After the War'' (russian: В 6 часов вечера после войны, V shest chasov vechera posle voyny, (also ''At six o'clock in the evening after the war'') by Ivan Pyryev.

Plot

In the very beginning of the Great Patriotic War, a young artillery officer Pavel ( Ivan Lyubeznov) receives a package from an orphanage. In a leave, his comrade and he go to the orphanage to see the children who sent it. Pavel meets there a young woman Varia ( Marina Ladynina). They fall in love from the first sight. They agree to meet again in Moscow "in 6 p.m. after the War'. Varia joins the army and becomes an

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. Varia and Pavel meet again after the War.

The title

The Russian film title alludes to the agreement of the Good Soldier Švejk and sapper Vodička on their way to the front, to meet at the pub "By the Chalice" (U Kalicha) "at 6 p.m. after the war". In the film, the two young lovers agree to meet at 6 p.m. after the war at the

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in Moscow. Since then the expression has become a Russian catch phrase. Another version connects the title with a poem written by the Soviet poet Yevgeniy Dolmatovsky during the Winter war with Finland in 1940. The poem entitled merely '6 P.M." has the line "at 6 P.M. after the War" as the refrain.

Facts about the film

* The film predicted that the War would end in May. * The film earned the 1946 Stalin Prize of 2nd degree for the director, the composer Tikhon Khrennikov, screenwriter

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, and lead actors Marina Ladynina, Ivan Lyubeznov, and

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.В шесть часов вечера после войны

Cast

* Marina Ladynina - Varia Pankova * Ivan Lyubeznov - Lieutenant Pavel Demidov *

- senior lieutenant Vasily Kudryashov *Ariadne Lisak - Fenya, Varia's friend *Elena Savitskaya - Aunt Katya, building manager *

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- artilleryman *

Mikhail Pugovkin Mikhail Ivanovich Pugovkin (russian: Михаи́л Ива́нович Пу́говкин; July 13, 1923, Rameshki, Chukhlomsky District of Kostroma Oblast — July 25, 2008, Moscow) (aged 85) was a Soviet and Russian comic actor named a People' ...

- artilleryman * Tatyana Barysheva - resident of house number 5 *Irina Murzaeva - pianist *Lyudmila Semyonova - anti-aircraft gunner * Aleksandr Antonov - commander *Margarita Zharov - collective farm girl (uncredited) *Alexandra Danilova - anti-aircraft gunner (uncredited) *Stepan Krylov - military (uncredited) *Tatiana Govorkov - neighbor (uncredited)

References

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