Alyonka
1962 · 86 MIN · IMDB 7.2 · 193 VOTES · DIR. Boris Barnet
Overview
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,105 lines
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00:00:10 Alyonka
00:04:55 Your fatty is probably still drinking tea at home.
00:07:38 - Well, what was your question again? - It takes 500km to get to Aryk.
00:12:01 I hate such people.
00:17:14 South.
00:19:26 I was not supposed to arrive there
00:22:34 And daddy would see this newspaper and run to show it to mommy.
00:25:31 Think. What would Pavel Korchagin do in your place?
00:29:32 In the war you didn't feel pain, I'm sure.
00:33:27 But Lyuska and I are just mad about Eskimo Pies.
00:38:05 - 47 what? - Pumpkins.
00:41:21 Well
00:45:22 I've solved the problem.
00:49:03 That I requisitioned those two little rooms for myself?
00:54:17 Do you want to stay behind again?
00:56:49 I saw her and made her acquaintance. That's it.
00:59:07 So I had to explain to her how a man should live in this world.
01:02:07 To solve these enigmas was our daily life.
01:05:25 I drove, flashed lights on and off. She was nowhere.
01:09:11 - Why did he abandon the sacks then? - Did you forget the mud we were in?
01:11:46 You could make jam with it. You smell honey when you lie there.
01:14:26 And we'll not only bury her
01:16:42 I know one thing.
01:23:44 Have a good trip, Alyonka!