Song of Russia

"Flaming Love Story of an American"

Feb 1 1944 Approved 1h 47m
Drama, Music, Romance

American conductor John Meredith and his manager, Hank Higgins, go to Russia shortly before the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. Meredith falls in love with beautiful Soviet pianist Nadya Stepanova while they travel throughout the country on a 40-city tour. Along the way, they see happy, healthy, smiling, free Soviet citizens, blissfully living the Communist dream. This bliss is destroyed by the German invasion.

Plot

In June 1941, famed American symphony conductor John Meredith (Robert Taylor) is touring Soviet Russia with his manager Hank (Robert Benchley) when they go to a small rural town where famed Russian composer Tchaikovsky was born. John meets Nadya (Susan Peters), a sweet peasant girl with an ear for classical music and they soon get married. When war breaks out, John want to flee back to the USA, but Nadya wants to stay and fight the invading Germans who are closing in on the village.

Written by

Paul Jarrico, Richard Collins, Leo Mittler

Directed by

Gregory Ratoff, Laslo Benedek

Cast

Robert Taylor, Susan Peters, John Hodiak

Crew

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Production Countries

United States of America

Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Languages

English

Awards

N/A

Trailers
Song Of Russia Original Trailer
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330
Average Rating
5.8 out of 10
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