Ballad of a Soldier

==Ballad of a Soldier (Баллада о солдате)==
1959, directed by Grigoriy Chukhray
(IMDB Link) IMDB Summary: Young Russian soldier Alyosha earns a medal, but asks to visit his mother instead. His journey recounts various kinds of love during wartime.
*Vladimir Ivashov - Pvt. Alyosha Skvortsov (as Volodya Ivashov)
*Zhanna Prokhorenko - Shura
*Antonina Maksimova - The mother
*Nikolay Kryuchkov - The general
*Evgeniy Urbanskiy - Vasya (the invalid)
*Elza Lezhdey - The invalid's wife (as E. Lezhdej)
*Aleksandr Kuznetsov - Gavrilkin (the train sentry) (as A. Kuznetsov)
*Evgeniy Teterin - The lieutenant ('A terrible beast') (as Ye. Teterin)
*Valentina Markova - Liza (Pavlov's wife) (as V. Markova)
*Marina Kremnyova - Zoya (neighbor girl) (as M. Kremnnyova)
*Vladimir Pokrovskiy - Pavlov's invalid father (as V. Pokrovsky)
*Georgiy Yumatov - Sergeant giving bars of soap (as G. Yumatov)
*Gennadiy Yukhtin - Pvt. Seryozha Pavlov (as G. Yukhtin)
*Valentina Telegina - Old woman truck driver (as V. Telegina)
*Lev Borisov - Joking soldier on train (as L. Borisov)
*Leonid Chubarov - General's aide (as L. Chubarov)
*Vladimir Kashpur - Zoya's husband (as V. Kashpur)
*Valentin Abramov - Mitya (boy with clock) (as V. Abramov)
*Mikhail Dadyko - Old man on train ('Don't worry, it will work out') (as M. Dadyko)
*Semyon Svashenko - Old Ukrainian (as S. Svashenko)
*Nina Menshikova - Telegraph Office clerk
*Valentin Bryleev - Boy with bubbles on stairwell (as V. Bryleyev)
*Evgeniy Evstigneev - Truck driver who changed his mind (as E. Evstigneev)
*Yuriy Dubrovin - Pavlov's buddy
Category:Russia
Category:World War II
Category:WW2
Category:War
Category:Leave
Category:Trains
Category:Soviet Union
Category:1959
Category:Boy Soldier
Category:Romance
Category:Bribery