The Iron Curtain
Synopsis
1947 ... The Savchenko family returns to Moscow from evacuation - husband and wife with Kostya's little son. They settle with Grandma Kostya in a huge communal apartment. Street meets the boy with a flock of local boys. Then there were: the division of the territory with the "Sretensky"; trophy movie āGirl of my dreamsā; a school with separate education, camp discipline and essays about the border guard Karatsyup. And the monetary reform of 1947, when all of their savings depreciated in an instant, and the boys let out boats from banknotes in puddles.
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Top cast
Alla Kazanskaya
Anna Markovna, Grandmother
Timofei Fyodorov
Kostya Savchenko in his youth
Sergey Zernov
Sasha, Father of Kostya Savchenko
Aleksandr Bykovsky
Kostya Savchenko in childhood
Aleksandr Yatsko
Military uncle of Kostya Savchenko
Aleksey Batalov
Narrator (voice)
Olga Annenskaya
Paradise Mother Bones
Lyubov Matyushina
Zoya Mikhailovna, Wife of Vladimir Vasilyevich
Boris Romanov
Vladimir Vasilyevich Orlov, Neighbor in a communal apartment
Semyon Strugachyov
Efim Semyonovich, Petya's father, Husband of an American