Zhivye i myortvye 1963

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.

Cast:

Kirill Lavrov
Ivan Sinzov 

Oleg Efremov
Ivanov 

Anatoli Papanov
General Serpilin 

Oleg Tabakov
Krutikov 

Lyudmila Krylova
Tanya Ovsyannikova 

Boris Chirkov
Biryukov 

• The Alive and the Dead
• Живые и мёртвые