Zhivye i myortvye

original title:
Zhivye i myortvye
other titles:
The Living and the Dead, (Die Lebenden und die Toten)
country / year of production:
Soviet Union / 1963
original length:
201 min. , black/white
premiere:
FIN: 6 November 1964
genre:
melodrama
based on:
Konstantin Simonov. Die Lebenden und die Toten. Berlin: Verlag Kultur und Fortschritt, 1962.
director:
Aleksandr Stolper
film script:
Konstantin Simonov , Aleksandr Stolper
producer:
cinematographer:
Nikolai Olonovsky
editor:
Ye. Ovsyannikova
composer:
cast (role):
Kirill Lavrov (Ivan Sinzov) , Anatoli Papanov (General Serpilin) , Aleksei Glazyrin (Malinin) , Oleg Yefremov (Ivanov) , Lyudmila Krylova (Ovsyannikova) , Kirill Lavrov , Anatoli Papanov , Aleksei Glazyrin , Oleg Yefremov , Lyudmila Krylova
more:
plot synopsis:
A Russian war correspondent is drafted into the war and finds himself in the middle of battle. When he loses his party card, however, he is treated as a deserter until he finds help from a kind man.
keywords:
communism , prisoner camps , war correspondent , dersertion
war:
Second World War (1939-1945)
literature:
remarks:
This Soviet war feature was considerably outspoken for the time as it addressed issues such as anti-Stalinism, Siberia and the inhumanity of war.
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