The Shore

The novel by Yuri Bondarev (1924 – 2020) "The Shore" (1975) is one of the most famous works of the writer, for which he was awarded the State Prize of the USSR. In 1984, a film based on the novel... was made. The protagonist of the novel is a well-known writer, Vadim Nikitin, a former front-line soldier, a platoon commander who participated in the capture of Berlin. He arrives in Germany at the invitation of Frau Gilbert and the literary club. Nikitin is about to engage in discussions and exchanges of views on contemporary culture with writers from European countries. But the main thing awaiting the writer in defeated Germany is a meeting with a distant military past, with the girl he loved back then... "And once upon a time there was Königsdorf, and it was May, and the sun, and we were young, and nothing restrained us, not even war. And could it have been imagined back then... that we would meet in Hamburg as different people... completely different, having lived a whole life?..."