BALLAD OF A SOLDIER (THE CRITERION COLLECTION)

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• Release Year: 1959
• Genre: Drama; Romance; War
• Plot: 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 encounters 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.
• Cast: Vladimir Ivashov; Zhanna Prokhorenko; Antonina Maksimova; Nikolay Kryuchkov; Evgeniy Urbanskiy; Elza Lezhdey; Aleksandr Kuznetsov; Evgeniy Teterin; Valentina Markova; Mariya Kremneva; Vladimir Pokrovskiy; Georgiy Yumatov; Gennadiy Yukhtin; Valentina Telegina; Lev Borisov; Leonid Chubarov; Vladimir Kashpur; Valentin Abramov; Mikhail Dadyko; Semyon Svashenko; Nina Menshikova; Valentin Bryleev; Evgeniy Evstigneev; Yuriy Dubrovin; Valentina Ananina; Aleksey Bakhar; Tatyana Barysheva; Valentina Berezutskaya; Vera Burlakova; Aleksandra Danilova; Sergey Pryanishnikov; Alevtina Rumyantseva; Vsevolod Sanaev; Pyotr Savin; Ekaterina Savinova; Olga Shakhova; Georgi Shapovalov; Nikolay Smorchkov; Lyubov Sokolova; Evgeniy Steblov; Elena Volskaya; Yuriy Yakovlev; Marina Gavrilko; Zoya Isaeva; Pyotr Kiryutkin; Mayya Kokhanova; Viktor Markin; Radner Muratov; Artur Nishchyonkin; Grigoriy Chukhray; Valentin Ezhov
• Director: Grigoriy Chukhray
• Runtime: 1:28
• Company: Mosfilm, Ministerstvo Kinematografii
• Media Format: Movie