Goodbye, Boys
1964, NR, 97 min. Directed by Mikhail Kalik. Starring Nikolai Dostal, V. Burlakov, Natalya Bogunova.
REVIEWED By Marjorie Baumgarten, Thu., Nov. 8, 2001
This adaptation of a bestselling novel by Boris Balter is a lyrical coming-of-age story about three graduating teenagers during WWII whose summer idyll of chasing girls on the Black Sea beaches is cut short by the realties of military conscription.
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Goodbye, Boys, Mikhail Kalik, Nikolai Dostal, V. Burlakov, Natalya Bogunova