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Encyclopedia > Ballad of a Soldier
Ballad of a Soldier
Ballad of a Soldier
Produced by M. Chernova
Directed by Grigori Chukhrai
Written by Valentin Yezhov & Grigori Chukhrai
Starring Vladimir Ivashov
Zhanna Prokhorenko
Music by Mikhail Ziv
Cinematography Vladimir Nikolayev & Era Savelyeva
Editing Mariya Timofeyeva
Distributed by Union Film Distributors Inc. (USA)
Release date November 4, 1960
Runtime 89 min.
Language Russian
Budget {{{budget}}}
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Ballad of a Soldier, (Баллада о солдате, Ballada o soldate) is a 1959 Soviet Union award-winning motion picture drama directed by Grigori Chukhrai that is set in World War II. File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Grigori Chukhrai, born May 23, 1921 - died October 28, 2001, was a prominent film director and screenwriter in the former Soviet Union. ... Grigori Chukhrai, born May 23, 1921 - died October 28, 2001, was a prominent film director and screenwriter in the former Soviet Union. ... Zhanna Prokhorenko & Vladimir Ivashov Zhanna Prokhorenko (born May 11, 1940 in Poltava, Ukraine) is an actress best known to European and North American audiences for her starring role in the 1959 film, Ballad of a Soldier. ... November 4 is the 308th day of the year (309th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 57 days remaining. ... 1960 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Grigori Chukhrai, born May 23, 1921 - died October 28, 2001, was a prominent film director and screenwriter in the former Soviet Union. ... World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrinations, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons like the atom bomb. ...


Storyline

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Ballad of a Soldier is not primarily a "war story" but recounts, within the context of the turmoil of war, various kinds of love: the romantic love of a young couple, the committed love of a married couple, and a mother's love of her child. The film tells the story of a young soldier making his way through the countryside during the first few months of the war at a time when the Soviet Union seemed destined to fall to the powerful Nazi onslaught. Awarded a six-day pass for destroying two German tanks, Alyosha (Vladimir Ivashov) makes his way home to visit his mother. However, his journey changes when he hops a freight train and discovers a young girl stowed away in the railcar. The Nazi party used a right-facing swastika as their symbol and the red and black colors were said to represent Blut und Boden (blood and soil). ...


Main cast

  • Vladimir Ivashov - Pvt. Alyosha Skvortsov
  • Zhanna Prokhorenko - Shura
  • Antonina Maksimova - The mother
  • Nikolai Kryuchkov - The general
  • Yevgeni Urbansky - Vasya
  • Elza Lezhdey - Vasya's wife

Zhanna Prokhorenko & Vladimir Ivashov Zhanna Prokhorenko (born May 11, 1940 in Poltava, Ukraine) is an actress best known to European and North American audiences for her starring role in the 1959 film, Ballad of a Soldier. ...

Awards

Zhanna Prokhorenko & Vladimir Ivashov
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Zhanna Prokhorenko & Vladimir Ivashov

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Ballad of a Soldier - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (238 words)
Ballad of a Soldier, (Баллада о солдате, Ballada o soldate) is a 1959 Soviet Union award-winning motion picture drama directed by Grigori Chukhrai that is set in World War II.
Ballad of a Soldier is not primarily a "war story" but recounts, within the context of the turmoil of war, various kinds of love: the romantic love of a young couple, the committed love of a married couple, and a mother's love of her child.
The film tells the story of a young soldier making his way through the countryside during the first few months of the war at a time when the Soviet Union seemed destined to fall to the powerful Nazi onslaught.
Guardian | Grigori Chukhrai (640 words)
Ballad Of A Soldier tells the story of a fresh-faced young conscript, who wins four days' leave to visit his mother.
Although the woman is condemned, both by the soldier and the film, the authorities were shocked to find a depiction of adultery, which, like homosexuality, did not officially exist in the Soviet Union.
Ballad Of A Soldier became the first Soviet film to enter - and win - an American film festival, the San Francisco, and Chukhrai also took the best director award at Cannes in 1960.
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