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