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Movies directed by Grigori Chukhrai

Biography: Studied at the Moscow Cinema Institute under Soviet film master Mikhail Romm. He found fame after his 1959 film "Ballad of a Soldier" which is considered one of the best Soviet war films and which has played all over the world.
Graduate of the legendary Russian film school VGIK, also attended by Sergei Parajanov and Mikhail Vartanov
Chukhrai, Grigory

Ballad of a Soldier (Ballada o soldate) (1959)

Thursday, February 18th, 2010 11:02
Ballad of a Soldier (Ballada o soldate)Genres: Drama | Romance | War
Countries: Soviet Union
Directors: Grigori Chukhrai
Actors: Vladimir Ivashov | Zhanna Prokhorenko | Antonina Maksimova | Nikolai Kryuchkov | Yevgeni Urbansky | Elza Lezhdey | Aleksandr Kuznetsov | Yevgeni Teterin | V. Markova | Marina Kremnyova | Vladimir Pokrovsky | Georgi Yumatov | Gennadi Yukhtin | Valentina Telegina | Lev Borisov
During World War II, 19 year old soldier Alyosha gets a medal as a reward for a heroic act at the front. Instead of this medal he asks for a few days leave to visit his mother and repair the roof of their home. On the train eastwards he meets Shura who is on her way to her aunt. In those few days traveling together they fall in love.
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