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  • Title: Ballad of a Soldier (Criterion #48) [Ballada o Soldate]
  • Summary: During World War II, a young soldier is awarded a medal as a reward for a heroic act. Instead of the medal he asks for a few days leave to visit his mother.
  • Director: Grigori Chukhrai
  • Cast: Vladimir Ivashov, Nikolai Kryuchkov, Zhanna Prokhorenko, Yevgeny Urbansky, Yevgeni Yevstigneyev
  • Year: 1959
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  • Format: DVD
  • Language: Russian with English subtitles
  • Country: USSR Russia
  • Comments: The DVD includes an audio interview with director Grigori Chukhrai and actors Vladimir Ivashov and Zhanna Prokhorenko.
  • Collection: War