The Road Home

The Road Home — Plot

In one of the regions of Latvia occupied by the Nazis, the Germans arrest a peasant boy named Janis. His first escape ends in another arrest. This time, he is detained by his younger brother, who has become a policeman. After his next escape, his wife Ilga and daughter are sent to a concentration camp. Now Janis is ready to do anything to save them.

• Release date
• May 31, 1946
• Runtime
• 89 min
• Genres
• Drama, War
• Director
• Aleksandr Ivanov

The Road Home — Cast

Oleg Zhakov Yanis Lidiya Smirnova Ilga, Yanis' Wife Vasili Vanin The Miller Vasili Merkuryev Karlis, the Mechanic Lidiya Sukharevskaya Christina Gennadi Michurin Partisan Leader Grigoriy Shpigel Lt. Brenner Žanis Katlaps Artur