With You and Without You Movie Review

This exceptional, lovely Russian film begins with abduction, then evolves into a story of love and survival. Its then-youthful director gives his characters resourcefulness, strength, and courage, and sets them against a difficult background. The two leads infuse their roles with a gutsy tenderness that is extremely effective. Based on M. Shetov's story “Stepanida Basyrina.”

1974 86m/C RU Marina Nejelova, Juosas Budraitis, Stanislaw Borodkin; D: Rodion Nakhapetov; W: Alexander Popov; C: Sergei Saizev; M: Rigdan Trozjuk.