Alyonka (Алёнка) 62 years old

Set in 1955 when many migrated from Russia to the Steppes of Kazakhstan, this is the trip back to the Canal from the frontier and farms by a number of people who tell their settler stories. Alenka Muratova (Ovodova) is a winsome 13 year old who talks Dmitry Prokovich, the chief mechanic for the Soviet, into giving up his seat in the truck to a young mother with her infant daughter. Then Alenka and Dmitry share the back of the open truck with a young woman, newly graduated dentist who has not been able to find a position, Stefan, a hitchhiker with a dog who hopes his upper-class wife will return to him and the countryside, and Vasselina Petrovolka, a woman who lost one of her twin daughters in a riding accident by the river shortly after they arrived, and now is returning to tell the other twin of her sister's fate. A warm hearted look at common folks traveling in the frontier.

Credits

Natalya Seleznyova as

Yevgeni Shutov as

Nikolay Kryuchkov as

Erast Garin as

Irina Zarubina as

Nikolai Bogolyubov as

Alyonka Cast

Name	Character
Natalya Seleznyova She was 16, now 79 years old
Yevgeni Shutov He was 36, 69 years old when he died
Nikolay Kryuchkov He was 51, 83 years old when he died
Erast Garin He was 60, 78 years old when he died
Irina Zarubina She was 54, 69 years old when she died
Nikolai Bogolyubov He was 52, 82 years old when he died
Maya Menglet She was 26, now 89 years old
Vasiliy Shukshin He was 32, 45 years old when he died

Alyonka Crew

Name	Department
Boris Barnet as Director. He was 59 (62) years old when He died	Directing

Alyonka (62 years)

Release day: Thursday, March 22, 1962
Runtime: 86 minutes