Samson SAMSONOV
Самсон САМСОНОВ
Samson SAMSONOV
USSR, 1978, 83mn 
Colour, fiction
The Market Woman and the Poet
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Торговка и поэт

 

 La Marchande et le poète

 Torgovka i poet

 
Directed by : Samson SAMSONOV (Самсон САМСОНОВ)
Production : Mosfilm
 
Sites : Kino-teatr, IMDb

Plot synopsis
Based on the story of the same name by I. Shamyakin. 1941, the beginning of the war. Olga is a market woman, who sales second-hand goods. The small Belarusian town where Olga, a feisty woman who knew how to stand up for herself and her daughter, lived was occupied by the Germans. It was to her that underground resistance fighters turned, asking for a ransom for a man from a prisoner of war camp. The young woman was shocked by what she saw in the camp – and, unable to find the man she was looking for, Olga ransomed the young man, calling him her husband. As soon as the soldier recovered, he was eager to fight. And when he died, Olga joined the fight against the Nazis...
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Contemporary Russian Poets and Russian or Soviet Cinema, (kinoglaz.fr), 2026