Ballad of a Soldier.

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FilmPublisher number: 11932926 | KanopyPublisher: The Criterion Collection, 1959Publisher: [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2021Description: 1 online resource (streaming video file) (88 minutes): digital, .flv file, soundContent type:

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Antonina Maksimova, Nikolai Kryuchkov, Vladimir Ivashov, Zhanna ProkhorenkoSummary: Russian soldier Alyosha Skvortsov is granted a visit with his mother after he single-handedly fends off two enemy tanks. As he journeys home, Alyosha encounters the devastation of his war-torn country, witnesses glimmers of hope among the people, and falls in love. With its poetic visual imagery, Grigori Chukhrai's BALLAD OF A SOLDIER is an unconventional meditation on the effects of war, and a milestone in Russian cinema.

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Antonina Maksimova, Nikolai Kryuchkov, Vladimir Ivashov, Zhanna Prokhorenko

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Russian soldier Alyosha Skvortsov is granted a visit with his mother after he single-handedly fends off two enemy tanks. As he journeys home, Alyosha encounters the devastation of his war-torn country, witnesses glimmers of hope among the people, and falls in love. With its poetic visual imagery, Grigori Chukhrai's BALLAD OF A SOLDIER is an unconventional meditation on the effects of war, and a milestone in Russian cinema.

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