Ballad of a Soldier
- 1959
- Soviet Union
- 1h 28min
- PG
- Directed by: Grigoriy Chukhray
- Cast: Vladimir Ivashov, Zhanna Prokhorenko, Antonina Maksimova
In Grigoriy Chukhray’s romantic World War II drama, Vladimir Ivashov’s inexperienced, young Russian conscript yearns for home while battling on the Eastern Front. Granted a few days leave to see his mother following an astonishing act of heroism, the young private spends much of his train journey home helping others. Eventually crossing paths with Zhanna Prokhorenko’s stowaway Shura, during this eventful journey the two begin to fall in love.
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Ballad of a Soldier
15 Jan 2007
This long overdue DVD release of Grigori Chukhrai's 1959 anti-war film arrives thankfully clear of the hideous dubbing that so marred previous incarnations of the film. It is not difficult to see why Chukhrai's film picked up the Palme d'Or at the 1960…
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