Veronika and Boris come together in Moscow shortly before World War II. Walking along the river, they watch cranes fly overhead, and promise to rendezvous before Boris leaves to fight. Boris misses the meeting and is off to the front lines, while Veronika waits patiently, sending letters faithfully. After her house is bombed, Veronika moves in with Boris' family, into the company of a cousin with his own intentions.
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Aleksey Batalov
Vasili Merkuryev
Aleksandr Shvorin
Svetlana Kharitonova
Konstantin Kadochnikov
Valentin Zubkov
Antonina Bogdanova
Boris Kokovkin
Ekaterina Kupriyanova
Valentina Ananina
Valentina Vladimirova
Olga Dzisko
Leonid Knyazev
Georgiy Kulikov
Daniil Netrebin
Aleksandr Popov
Irina Preis
Nikolay Smorchkov
Galina Stepanova
Klarina Frolova-Vorontsova
Georgiy Shamshurin
Leonid Alekseyev
Valentina Berezutskaya
Maya Bulgakova
Lidiya Vinogradova
Lidiya Genel-Ablova
Aleksandr Degtyar
Anatoliy Dudorov
Tamara Evgeneva-Ivanova
Ivan Zalesskiy
Anna Zargitckaia
Maria Klyuchareva
Yuri Komissarov
Aleksandr Kuznetsov
Yevgeniya Lyzhina
Alevtina Rumyantseva
Mikhail Semenikhin
Lyubov Sokolova
Lyubov Studneva
Vasiliy Fushchich
Vasiliy Tsygankov
Yevgeni Kudryashov