Machinist Drove the Trains (1961)

Olga, who was taken to the West by Hitler's invaders, works as a switchman at a railway station. Echelons with prisoners of war - convicts - pass by her every day. Olga gets acquainted with the machinist Fyodor and with his help organizes the escape of her camp mates. But the plan fails, and the escapees are shot. Fyodor, who miraculously survived, gets to the homeland. And after the war, chance again brings him together with Olga, when the hero with severe burns after an accident falls into the hospital...

Cast (9)CrewGenresDetailsReleasesMediaAwards

Leonid Kuravlyov

Yasha

Zinaida Sorochinskaya

Katya

Georgi Zhzhyonov

Ivan Sereda

Grigoriy Gay

Fyodor Ivanovich

Lyudmila Lyulko

Rucheva Olga Nikolaevna

Anna Dubrovina

Sanya

Svetlana Konovalova

Galya

Vladimir Yemelyanov

Gestapo investigator

Yuri Gorobets

Police captain

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