Twenty Days Without War

Major Lopatin (Yuriy Nikulin) is a war correspondent who gets twenty days of leave from the front in 1942 and takes the long trip to Tashkent. Aleksei German sends him through a city with no bombs in it, where he visits a dead soldier's family and sits in on the filming of his own stories. Somewhere in those days he meets Nina (Lyudmila Gurchenko), and the two of them are drawn together knowing his leave will run out.