Twenty Days Without War

Konstantin Mikhailovich Simonov 1915 – 1979 – Soviet writer, war correspondent, and public figure. As a war correspondent, he visited all fronts of the Great Patriotic War, traveled through the lands of Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Poland, and Germany. "Twenty Days Without War" 1973 – a truthful narrative about the inner life of a person during the war. Frontline journalist of the newspaper "Red Star" Vasily Lopatins goes to Tashkent, where a film is being made based on his military sketches. It is there, far from the front line, that he experiences a strong, long-forgotten feeling and lives without war for a whole 20 days during the war!