Ballad of a Soldier

During World War II, earnest young Russian soldier Alyosha Skvortsov is rewarded with a short leave of absence for performing a heroic deed on the battlefield. Feeling homesick, he decides to visit his mother. Due to his kindhearted nature, however, Alyosha is repeatedly sidetracked by his efforts to help those he encounters, including a lovely girl named Shura. In his tour of a country devastated by war, he struggles to keep hope alive.

• Grigoriy ChukhrayDirector
• Valentin EzhovWriter
• Grigoriy ChukhrayWriter
• Mikhail ZivOriginal Music Composer

• Vladimir IvashovAlyosha Skvortsov
• Zhanna ProkhorenkoShura
• Antonina MaksimovaKaterina, Alyosha's Mother
• Nikolay KryuchkovThe General
• Evgeniy UrbanskiyVasya, the Invalid
• Elza LezhdeyLiza, the Invalid's Wife
• Aleksandr KuznetsovGavrilkin, the Train Sentry
• Yevgeni TeterinThe Lieutenant, 'A Terrible Beast'
• Valentina MarkovaZoya, Skvortsovs' Neighbor
• Mariya KremnevaElizaveta Petrovna, Pavlov's Wife
• Vladimir PokrovskiyVasiliy Egorovich, Pavlov's Father
• Georgiy YumatovThe Driver