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The Girlfriends

The Girlfriends

19366.51h 33m

Overview

Girlfriends Zoya, Natasha and Asya live in Petrograd. Before the Civil War, young heroines are aware of the social injustice of life. When the war begins, the girls are recorded by the orderlies of the working group to protect the Bolshevik Petrograd from the advance of the whites.

Directed by Lev Arnshtam
Written by Lev Arnshtam, Raisa Vasilyeva
Produced by Sergei Yutkevich, Aleksandr Gorskiy, Adrian Piotrovskiy
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Top Cast

Zoya Fyodorova

Zoya Fyodorova

Zoya

Irina Zarubina

Irina Zarubina

Natasha

Yanina Zheymo

Yanina Zheymo

Asya / Asya in childhood

Boris Chirkov

Boris Chirkov

Senka

Boris Babochkin

Boris Babochkin

Andrei

Boris Poslavsky

Boris Poslavsky

Silych

Vera Popova

Vera Popova

mother

Mariya Blyumental-Tamarina

Mariya Blyumental-Tamarina

grandmother

I

Ida Antipova

Zoya in childhood

D

Dagmara Pape

Natasha in childhood

Themes & Keywords

world war ilost film

About The Girlfriends

The Girlfriends is a war, drama film released in 1936 exploring themes of world war i, lost film. Directed by Lev Arnshtam, it stars Zoya Fyodorova, Irina Zarubina, Yanina Zheymo. Girlfriends Zoya, Natasha and Asya live in Petrograd. Before the Civil War, young heroines are aware of the social injustice of life. When the war begins, the girls are recorded by the orderlies of the working group to protect the Bolshevik Petrograd from the advance of the whites.

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