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Young Russian soldier Alyosha earns a medal, but asks to visit his mother instead. His journey recounts various kinds of love during wartime.Young Russian soldier Alyosha earns a medal, but asks to visit his mother instead. His journey recounts various kinds of love during wartime.Young Russian soldier Alyosha earns a medal, but asks to visit his mother instead. His journey recounts various kinds of love during wartime.
- Nominated for 1 Oscar
- 6 wins & 4 nominations total
Vladimir Ivashov
- Alyosha Skvortsov
- (as Volodya Ivashov)
Mariya Kremneva
- Elizaveta Petrovna (Pavlov's Wife)
- (as M. Kremnnyova)
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- TriviaThe can of meat the train guard is eating from was clearly marked: "U.S. Meat". This would have been correct in actual life due the United States' Lend Lease with the Soviet Union.
- GoofsThe movie is set in July 1942 (a news report over loudspeakers mentions a Soviet retreat from Rostov and Voronezh). Yet the film depicts German Tiger and Soviet T 34/85 tanks, which came into service, respectively, in mid 1943 and early 1944.
- Quotes
Alyosha Skvortsov: Comrade General, instead of my decoration, could I go home to see my mother?
- ConnectionsFeatured in Fejezetek a film történetéböl: A szovjet film 1953-1970 (1990)
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This is a most powerful, and positive, statement against war.
Gregori Chukhrai makes a very powerful, and poignant protest against the horror and futility of war. There is no whining, no accusing, only a very real, and believable, look at the effect that it has on some very ordinary people. People that each of us can relate to. I have to classify this as my all time favorite war movie. If you have a choice, watch it with the Russian language, and subtitles. The warmth is missing in the overdubbed voices, in the dubbed version. Although my Russian is as limited as possible, the emotion that is portrayed by the vocalizations of the actors, is powerful. One is certain to fall in love with either Vladimir Ivashov, or Zhanna Prokhorenko. This is one of those rare films, that each time one watches it, one gleans more from it, and feels that much closer to the film, the director/writer, and to the actors.
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- Jun 28, 1999
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- Also known as
- Balada o vojniku
- Filming locations
- Mosfilm Studios, Moscow, Russia(Studio)
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- Runtime1 hour 28 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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