Overview
Based on the story of the same name by Anatoliy Kalinin. A young village woman, Klavdiya Pukhlyakova, the mother of a newborn girl, finds a gypsy boy at the crushed kibitka under the tanks. Having pity on the child, she takes him home and raises him as her own son. 17 years pass. Once in the village appears a lonely gypsy Budulai, who has experienced a lot. He very quickly gained the sympathy of Pukhlyakova's adoptive son. Suspecting that Budulai is the father of her gypsy boy, Klavdiya fears that the peace of the family will be disturbed...
Director and cast
- Lyudmila Khityaeva as Klavdiya Pukhlyakova
- Yevgeni Matveyev as Budulai
- Sergei Yermilov as Vanya
- Tatyana Grabovskaya as Nyura
- Vladimir Yemelyanov as Timofei Ilyich
- Ivan Pereverzev as Ivan Dmitrievich
- Yelena Maksimova as Lushchilikha
- Pyotr Loboda as Cherenkov
- Lyudmila Marchenko as Budulai's wife
- Petro Vesklyarov as Budulai's father
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