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The Alive and the Dead (1964)

The Alive and the Dead (1964)

Drama War
Release Date: 1964, February 22
Directors: Aleksandr Stolper
Countries: Soviet Union
Production: Mosfilm, Mosfilm
Cast: Mikhail Ulyanov, Oleg Khabalov, Nikolai Sergeyev, Aleksandr Titov, Aleksandr Petrov, Nikolay Sibeikin, Anatoliy Papanov, Lev Lyubetsky, Leonid Khmara, Raisa Kurkina, Oleg Tabakov, Vladimir Shibankov

Overview:

A Russian war correspondent is drafted into the war and finds himself in the middle of battle. When he loses his party card, however, he is treated as a deserter until he finds help from a kind man. This Soviet war feature was considerably outspoken for the time as it addressed issues such as anti-Stalinism, Siberia and the inhumanity of war. Adapting his screenplay from a book by Constantin Simonov, Alexandre Stolper was responsible for writing as well as directing.