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Ballada o soldate (1959)
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Release Date:
26 December 1960 (USA) moreTagline:
The Critics All Agree It's Great...And So Will You!Plot:
During World War II, 19 year old soldier Alyosha gets a medal as a reward for a heroic act at the front... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
First Love
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Going Home
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Russia
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Nominated for Oscar. Another 4 wins & 2 nominations moreUser Comments:
This is a most powerful, and positive, statement against war. moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Vladimir Ivashov | ... | Pvt. Alyosha Skvortsov (as Volodya Ivashov) |
| Zhanna Prokhorenko | ... | Shura |
| Antonina Maksimova | ... | The mother |
| Nikolai Kryuchkov | ... | The general |
| Yevgeni Urbansky | ... | Vasya (the invalid) |
| Elza Lezhdey | ... | The invalid's wife (as E. Lezhdej) |
| Aleksandr Kuznetsov | ... | Gavrilkin (the train sentry) (as A. Kuznetsov) |
| Yevgeni Teterin | ... | The lieutenant ('A terrible beast') (as Ye. Teterin) |
| V. Markova | ... | Liza (Pavlov's wife) |
| Marina Kremnyova | ... | Zoya (neighbor girl) (as M. Kremnnyova) |
| Vladimir Pokrovsky | ... | Pavlov's invalid father (as V. Pokrovsky) |
| Georgi Yumatov | ... | Sergeant giving bars of soap (as G. Yumatov) |
| Gennadi Yukhtin | ... | Pvt. Seryozha Pavlov (as G. Yukhtin) |
| Valentina Telegina | ... | Old woman truck driver (as V. Telegina) |
| Lev Borisov | ... | Joking soldier on train (as L. Borisov) |
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89 minCountry:
Soviet UnionLanguage:
RussianColour:
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1.33 : 1 moreSound Mix:
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Gregori Chukhrai makes a very powerful, and poignant protest against the horror and futility of war. There is no whining, no accusing, only a very real, and believable, look at the effect that it has on some very ordinary people. People that each of us can relate to. I have to classify this as my all time favorite war movie. If you have a choice, watch it with the Russian language, and subtitles. The warmth is missing in the overdubbed voices, in the dubbed version. Although my Russian is as limited as possible, the emotion that is portrayed by the vocalizations of the actors, is powerful. One is certain to fall in love with either Vladimir Ivashov, or Zhanna Prokhorenko. This is one of those rare films, that each time one watches it, one gleans more from it, and feels that much closer to the film, the director/writer, and to the actors.