They're Calling, Open the Door

They're Calling, Open the Door (Звонят, откройте дверь) is a  Soviet feature film of 1965 directed by Alexander Mitta, the debut of the twelve-year-old Elena Proklova in the cinema.

Plot
A fifth-grade student, Tanya (Elena Proklova), is in love with the pioneer leader Petya (Sergey Nikonenko), who is teased by one of her classmates. Tanya's father is a geologist, and her mother left for a while to see her husband; Tanya lives alone under the supervision of a neighbor in a communal apartment. To please the pioneer leader, she takes part in the search for an interesting person, one of the first soviet pioneers.

Cast

 * Elena Proklova as Tanya Nechaeva
 * Rolan Bykov as Pavel Vasilievich Kolpakov
 * Sergey Nikonenko as Petya Kryuchkov
 * Vladimir Belokurov as violinist   Korkin
 * Viktor Kosykh as Genka
 * Valentina Vladimirova as watchman in theater
 * Oleg Yefremov as Vasily Dresvyannikov
 * Lyusyena Ovchinnikova as Tanya's mother
 * Iya Savvina as Genka's mother
 * Vladimir Balon as teacher of fencing
 * Yekaterina Vasilyeva as physical education teacher
 * Klara Rumyanova as Klara Mikhailovna
 * Andrei Smirnov as tenant
 * Pavel Lebeshev as Petya Kryuchkov's neighbor

Awards

 * Venice Film Festival: Lion of San Marco — Grand Prize	(Alexander Mitta)
 * Mosfilm Award: Best Actress 	(Elena Proklova)