Dark Is the Night (1945 film)

Dark Is the Night
Directed by	Boris Barnet
Written by	Fyodor Knorre
Starring	Irina Radchenko Boris Andreyev Ivan Kuznetsov Aleksei Yudin
Cinematography	Sarkis Gevorkyan
Music by	David Blok
Production company	Yerevan Film Studio
Release date	1 May 1945 (1945-05-01)
Running time	1h 13min
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

Dark Is the Night (Russian: Однажды ночью, romanized: Odnazhdy nochyu) is a 1945 Soviet World War II film directed by Boris Barnet.

Plot

The film is set during the Great Patriotic War. At night a burning plane crashes on the ruins of an occupied city. The surviving Soviet pilots, among whom are some who are seriously injured, hide from the Nazi persecution. To help them comes a very young Varya, who hides them in her attic. Having lost her mother and sister, she works as a cleaner in the German headquarters. Unbeknownst to the watchmen, she provides the pilots with food and medicine. She is happy about the fact that now there is someone to talk to and someone to help. But the Nazis manage to find out Varya's secret. Having had time to warn the pilots, Varya sacrifices her life in order to save them.

Cast

• Irina Radchenko - Varya
• Boris Andreyev as pilot Khristoforov
• Ivan Kuznetsov as Vyatkin, pilot / Artankin
• Aleksei Yudin as Belugin, school principal / Feldwebel
• V. Leonov as Veselovskiy, grandfather
• B. Vyazemskiy as Dr. Orlov
• Olga Goreva as elderly woman Ulyana
• Nikolai Dupak as pilot Sannikov
• Boris Barnet as German commander Colonel Belts

External links

• Dark Is the Night at IMDb