Girl Seeks Father

Girl Seeks Father (Девочка ищет отца) is a 1959 Soviet children's drama film that was produced by Yuri Bulychyov at the Belarusfilm, directed by  Lev Golub, and which stars  Anna Kamenkova, Vladimir Guskov, Nikolai Barmin. Writers: Konstantin Gubarevich, Yevgeny Ryss. In 1959, it was the fifth film in Soviet Union in terms of the box office. It was watched by over 35 million spectators, which makes it the third watched Belarusian film ever.

Plot
The film was set in Russia during World War II and is about a 5-year-old girl searching for her partisan leader father while escaping from the Nazis, who try to catch her to make her their hostage, and a young boy trying to save her. For some time, when the girl is lost in the forest alone or when Nazis finally catch two children, hope is almost lost.

Cast

 * Credited cast
 * Anna Kamenkova	as Lena
 * Vladimir Guskov	as Yanka, forester's grandson
 * Nikolai Barmin		as Panas
 * Vladimir Dorofeyev	as forester	
 * Anna Yegorova	as 	Praskovya Ivanovna
 * Yevgeni Grigorev	as 	Konstantin Lvovich, Medical Assistant
 * Nina Grebeshkova	as	Anya
 * Konstantin Bartashevich	as Gunter, German Commandant
 * Rest of cast
 * Viktor Uralsky	as partisan Volodya
 * Yevgeni Polosin	as The Headmen
 * Ivan Shatillo	as Commissar

Awards

 * Mar del Plata International Film Festival, 3° Edition 1960. Best Child Performance (Anna Kamenkova).
 * The 25th Annual Bengal Film Journalists' Association, 1962 . Ten Best Foreign Films.