The Living and the Dead (1964 film)
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Directed by | Aleksandr Stolper |
Written by | Aleksandr Stolper Konstantin Simonov (novel) |
Starring | Kirill Lavrov |
Cinematography | Nikolai Olonovsky |
Edited by | Yekaterina Ovsyannikova |
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Release date | 22 February 1964 |
Running time | 201 minutes |
Country | Soviet Union |
Language | Russian |
The Alive and the Dead (Russian: Живые и мёртвые) is a 1964 Soviet film directed by Aleksandr Stolper based on the eponymous 1959 novel The Living and the Dead by Konstantin Simonov.
Plot
The film takes place in a time warp from the first days of the Great Patriotic War and until the middle of the winter of 1941-1942, before the beginning of the Soviet counterattack near Moscow. While on vacation Army military newspaper correspondent Ivan Sintsov (Kirill Lavrov) from the beginning of the war he returned to his unit, located in Belarus. However, access to the part it is not possible, in the first days under the onslaught of Soviet troops retreating Wehrmacht. Instead, it gets its part of the assembly point in the town of Borisov. There he was sent to the headquarters with another officer. They go out on the road at a distance from each other to vote and trucks to get to Orsha. But this time, the German air force swooped and his companion and the car he had just stopped, carries the bomb explosion. Sintsov falls into another military newspaper, located in Mogilev, and then in two environments - at Mogilev in July and Yelnia in October 1941.
Cast
- Kirill Lavrov as Ivan Sintsov
- Viktor Avdyushko as Sergeant Shestakov, commander of the gun
- Anatoli Papanov as General Serpilin
- Aleksei Glazyrin as Malinin
- Oleg Yefremov as Ivanov
- Lyudmila Krylova as Ovsyannikova
- Ludmila Lyubimova as Masha Sintsova
- Lev Lyubetskiy as Commissar
- Vasili Makarov
- Roman Khomyatov as Lyusun
- Yevgeny Samoylov as Communist commander of a battalion
- Zinovy Vysokovsky as Mikhail Weinstein, military photographer
- Oleg Tabakov as Krutikov
- Boris Chirkov as Biryukov
- Mikhail Gluzsky as Major General Orlov
- Yevgeni Shutov
- Valentina Telegina
- Mikhail Ulyanov as Sergei Filippovich, Army Commander
- Rimma Markova
- Vladimir Vysotsky
- Alla Budnitskaya
External links
- The Living and the Dead at IMDb
- The Alive and the Dead (part 1) is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive
- The Alive and the Dead (part 2) is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive