Ballad of a Soldier
Баллада о солдате (original)
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.
Starring Vladimir Ivashov, Zhanna Prokhorenko, Antonina Maksimova, Nikolay Kryuchkov, Evgeniy Urbanskiy, Elza Lezhdey, Yevgeni Teterin, Valentina Markova, Vladimir Pokrovskiy, Georgiy Yumatov
Watch "Ballad of a Soldier" on Criterion Channel released in 1959. It's a drama and war movie, and has a rating of 8.2 out of 10 from Imdb which is very high for this kind of movie.
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