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BALLAD OF A SOLDIER (BALLADA O SOLDATE)
A screen adaptation of the poetic fairy tale by Alexander Grin.
In a small fishermen’s village there lived the reclusive Longren with his daughter.
Once an experienced sailor, he was now retired and raising alone his little Assol. The neighbors avoided Longren’s house, holding him for an unsociable and vicious person. However, he and his daughter were just not like the others, and only one man could discern this. That man was a brave sailor named Gray who made Assol’s fondest wish come true. Since her childhood she had been waiting for a man that would come to her on a ship under crimson sails…
Debuting in the principal role was the talented actress Anastasia Vertinskaya.
Awards: Prize for Best Competition Film Program (along with the film “Lady With a Dog”) and Prize for Best Film For Youth at the Cannes IFF, 1960; Golden Gate Award – the first prize at the San Francisco IFF, 1960; David Donatello Prize for the Best Foreign-Language Film in Italy; Grand Prize at the London IFF, 1960; Oscar nomination of Valentin Yezhov and Grigory Chukhrai for Best Original Screenplay, 1961
Specials: Pictures and filmography of the film’s authors
Candids from the shooting ground
An interview with the director G. Chukhrai
Newsreels of the 1941 parade in Red Square.
Title: BALLAD OF A SOLDIER (BALLADA O SOLDATE)
DVD Manufacturer: RUSCICO
Collektion: War
Filmstudio: Mosfilm
Year of release: 1959
Ganre: War
Director: Grigory Chukhrai
Cast:Vladimir Ivashov, Zhanna Prokhorenko, Antonina Maximova, Nikolai Kriuchkov, Yevgheny Urbansky
Running time: 90 min
Sound:
Russian, English, French
Subtitles:
Russian, English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese
System:PAL
Format: 4:3
Color-Mode: B/W
Zone: ALL
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