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Ballad Of A Soldier Dvd

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Collection: Criterion Collection
Format: DVD
Year: 1959
Director: Grigori Chukhrai
Genre: Drama
Cast: Vladimir Ivashov, Zhanna Prokhorenko, Antonina Maksimova, Nikolai Kryuchkov, Yevgeni Urbansky
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Language: Russian
Release Date: 2002-04-30
Description

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.