| Ballad Of A Soldier - The Criterion Collection | |||||
| Criterion (1959) | |||||
| Drama, War | |||||
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| Vladimir Ivashov | Pvt. Alyosha Skvortsov | |
| Zhanna Prokhorenko | Shura | |
| Antonina Maksimova | The mother | |
| Nikolai Kryuchkov | The general | |
| Yevgeni Urbansky | Vasya | |
| Marina Kremnyova | Zoya | |
| Aleksandr Kuznetsov | Gavrilkin | |
| Elza Lezhdey | The invalid's wife | |
| V. Markova | Liza | |
| Yevgeni Teterin | The lieutenant | |
| Vladimir Pokrovsky | Pavlov's invalid father | |
| Georgi Yumatov | Sergeant giving bars of soap |
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| Producer | M. Chernova
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| Writer | Grigori Chukhrai
Valentin Yezhov Valentin Ezhov |
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| Cinematography | Era Savelyeva
Vladimir Nikolayev |
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| Musician | Mikhail Ziv
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"A vehemently original, beautiful, humorous, patriotic, sentimental journey." -Time Russian soldier Alyosha Skvortsov is granted a visit with his mother after he single handedly fends off two enemy tanks. As he journeys home, Alyosha encounter the devastation of his war-torn country, witnesses glimmers of hope among the people, and falls in love. With its poetic visual imagery, Grigori Chukhrai's Ballad Of A Soldier is an unconventional meditation on the effects of war, and a milestone in Russian cinema. |
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