The Star (1953 film)

The Star
Directed by
Written by	Emmanuil Kazakevich
Produced by	Aleksandr Ivanov
Starring	Alexey Pokrovsky Oleg Zhakov
Cinematography	Sergei Ivanov Vladimir Rapoport
Music by
Production company	Lenfilm
Release date	21 September 1953
Running time	88 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

The Star (Russian: Звезда, romanized: Zvezda) is a 1953 Soviet war film directed by and starring , Alexey Pokrovsky and Oleg Zhakov. The film was completed in 1949, but was not released for four years.^[1] It portrays a group of Soviet soldiers who are cut off and surrounded by German troops during the Second World War.

The film was remade in 2002.

Cast[]

• as Group Commander Lieutenant Travkin
• Alexey Pokrovsky as Political Officer Lieutenant Meshcheryakov
• as Kate Simakova
• Lidiya Sukharevskaya as Radio operator Tatiana Ulybysheva
• Oleg Zhakov as Colonel Serbichenko
• as Chief of Staff of the Division / Colonel Aliyev
• Nikolay Kryuchkov as Sgt. Mamochkin
• as Anikanov
• as Scout
• as Scout
• as Scout Yura Golubovsky
• N. Stepanov as Scout Brazhnikov
• as Head of the Division's Intelligence
• as Degtyarev captain
• as German
• as German General

References[]

Bibliography[]

• Liehm, Mira & Liehm, Antonín J. The Most Important Art: Eastern European Film After 1945. University of California Press, 1977.

External links[]

• The Star at IMDb

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