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Ballad of a Soldier
Баллада о солдате
Directed by Grigori Chukhrai
1959•1h 29m•NR•★ 8.0
Drama / Romance / War
Synopsis
A 19-year-old Soviet private who knocks out two German tanks is awarded a six-day furlough to visit his mother and patch her leaking roof, traveling across a war-torn country by train and falling into a pure, fleeting romance with an innocent girl before returning to the front to die. Grigori Chukhrai's Cannes and BAFTA-winning lyrical masterpiece of the Soviet Thaw.
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Cast & Crew
DirectorGrigoriy Chukhray
WriterValentin EzhovGrigoriy Chukhray
CinematographyEra SavelyevaVladimir Nikolayev
MusicMikhail Ziv
Principal Cast
Vladimir IvashovAlyosha Skvortsov
Zhanna ProkhorenkoShura
Antonina MaksimovaKaterina, Alyosha's Mother
Nikolay KryuchkovThe General
Evgeniy UrbanskiyVasya, the Invalid
Elza LezhdeyLiza, the Invalid's Wife
Yevgeni TeterinThe Lieutenant, 'A Terrible Beast'
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Aleksandr KuznetsovGavrilkin, the Train SentryTechnical Specifications
Runtime1h 29m (89 mins)
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DirectorGrigori Chukhrai
LanguagesRussian
CountrySU
StudioMosfilm
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