Zhivye i myortvye

Feb 24 1964 N/A 3h 21m
Drama, War

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. This Soviet war feature was considerably outspoken for the time as it addressed issues such as anti-Stalinism, Siberia and the inhumanity of war. Adapting his screenplay from a book by Constantin Simonov, Alexandre Stolper was responsible for writing as well as directing.

Plot

The film takes place in the time interval from the first days of the Great Patriotic War until the middle of the winter of 1941-1942, until the beginning of the Soviet counterattack near Moscow. The correspondent of the army military newspaper Ivan Sintsov, who was on vacation, was returning to his unit as part of the Western Front when the war began. However, he failed to get to the unit. Already in the first days, under the onslaught of the Wehrmacht, Soviet troops retreated. Instead of his unit, he got to the assembly point in the city of Borisov. There he was sent to headquarters along with another officer.

Written by

Konstantin Simonov, Aleksandr Stolper

Directed by

Aleksandr Stolper

Cast

Kirill Lavrov, Anatoliy Papanov, Aleksey Glazyrin

Crew

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Production Countries

Soviet Union

Production Companies

Mosfilm

Languages

Awards

1 win & 1 nomination

Scores
# of Votes
442
Average Rating
7.7 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
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