Girl Seeks Father (Russian: Девочка ищет отца, romanized: Devochka ishchet otsa) is a 1959 Soviet children's drama film that was produced by Yuri Bulychyov at the Belarusfilm, directed by Lev Golub,^[1] and which stars Anna Kamenkova, Vladimir Guskov, Nikolai Barmin. Writers: Konstantin Gubarevich, Yevgeny Ryss.^[2] In 1959, it was the fifth film in Soviet Union in terms of the box office. It was watched by over 35 million spectators,^[3] which makes it the third watched Belarusian film ever.^[4]

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.

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

• Mar del Plata International Film Festival , 3° Edition 1960. Best Child Performance (Anna Kamenkova).^[2][3][5]
• The 25th Annual Bengal Film Journalists' Association, 1962 . Ten Best Foreign Films.