The Star (1953 film)
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Directed by | |
Written by | Emmanuil Kazakevich |
Produced by | Aleksandr Ivanov |
Starring | Alexey Pokrovsky Oleg Zhakov |
Cinematography | Sergei Ivanov Vladimir Rapoport |
Music by | |
Production company | |
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.
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[]
- ^ Liehm & Liehm p.63
Bibliography[]
- Liehm, Mira & Liehm, Antonín J. The Most Important Art: Eastern European Film After 1945. University of California Press, 1977.
External links[]
Categories:
- Russian-language films
- 1953 films
- 1950s war films
- Soviet war films
- Soviet films
- 1950s Russian-language films
- World War II films
- Soviet black-and-white films
- Soviet World War II films
- Russian World War II films
- 1950s Soviet film stubs