Based on the novel of Mikhail Alekseyev "Bread — as a Noun." About the fate of a Russian woman who endured all the hardships of war and post-war life. After the war, those few who survived at the front returned to their native village. But Marfa's husband, whom she had been waiting for for so many years, would never return. Marfa, a beautiful and proud woman, remains true to her only love...
Marfa

Glafira

Nastasya

Avdotya

Styshnoy

Markelov

father Leonid

Zulya

Seryozhka

Marinka

granddad
stewardess

Sergei Lunin

driver

Sergei Lunin in childhood
woman in court (uncredited)

milkmaid (uncredited)

bearded old man in court (uncredited)

Нюра

komsomolets (uncredited)
