A atory about the legendary young actress of Soviet cinema Gulya Korolyova, who started acting in films at the age of four. In May 1942, having barely finished school, Gulya voluntarily went to the front and soon died heroically in a battle near Stalingrad.
Soviet Union Soviet Union
Olga Ageeva Margarita Sergeyecheva Larisa Luzhina Vladimir Puchkov Pavel Rudensky Vladimir Kotov Misha Shcherbakov Sergey Obrazov Elena Berman Marina Gorlova Gennadi Frolov Yuri Sherstnev Yelena Valayeva Mariya Vinogradova Aleksandr Goloborodko Sergey Dvoretskiy Olga Zhulina Vera Ivleva Georgiy Kulikov Lyubov Omelchenko Viktor Pavlov Nikita Podgornyj German Poloskov Marina Polyak Semyon Safonov Boris Telegin Aleksey Eybozhenko Vladimir Shibankov Arkady Smirnov
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