Ballad of a Soldier (Баллада о солдате)[]
1959, directed by Grigoriy Chukhray
(IMDB Link) IMDB Summary: Young Russian soldier Alyosha earns a medal, but asks to visit his mother instead. His journey recounts various kinds of love during wartime.
- Vladimir Ivashov - Pvt. Alyosha Skvortsov (as Volodya Ivashov)
- Zhanna Prokhorenko - Shura
- Antonina Maksimova - The mother
- Nikolay Kryuchkov - The general
- Evgeniy Urbanskiy - Vasya (the invalid)
- Elza Lezhdey - The invalid's wife (as E. Lezhdej)
- Aleksandr Kuznetsov - Gavrilkin (the train sentry) (as A. Kuznetsov)
- Evgeniy Teterin - The lieutenant ('A terrible beast') (as Ye. Teterin)
- Valentina Markova - Liza (Pavlov's wife) (as V. Markova)
- Marina Kremnyova - Zoya (neighbor girl) (as M. Kremnnyova)
- Vladimir Pokrovskiy - Pavlov's invalid father (as V. Pokrovsky)
- Georgiy Yumatov - Sergeant giving bars of soap (as G. Yumatov)
- Gennadiy Yukhtin - Pvt. Seryozha Pavlov (as G. Yukhtin)
- Valentina Telegina - Old woman truck driver (as V. Telegina)
- Lev Borisov - Joking soldier on train (as L. Borisov)
- Leonid Chubarov - General's aide (as L. Chubarov)
- Vladimir Kashpur - Zoya's husband (as V. Kashpur)
- Valentin Abramov - Mitya (boy with clock) (as V. Abramov)
- Mikhail Dadyko - Old man on train ('Don't worry, it will work out') (as M. Dadyko)
- Semyon Svashenko - Old Ukrainian (as S. Svashenko)
- Nina Menshikova - Telegraph Office clerk
- Valentin Bryleev - Boy with bubbles on stairwell (as V. Bryleyev)
- Evgeniy Evstigneev - Truck driver who changed his mind (as E. Evstigneev)
- Yuriy Dubrovin - Pavlov's buddy