The Alive and the Dead

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.

Director: Aleksandr Stolper

Cast: Kirill Lavrov, Anatoliy Papanov, Aleksey Glazyrin, Oleg Efremov, Lyudmila Krylova, Lev Lyubetsky, Lyudmila Lyubimova, Vasiliy Makarov

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