Zoya (1944 film)

Zoya
Zoya
	Film poster
Directed by	Lev Arnshtam
Written by	Lev Arnshtam; Boris Chirskov
Starring	Galina Vodyanitskaya
Cinematography	Aleksandr Shelenkov
Music by	Dmitri Shostakovich
Distributed by	Soyuzdetfilm
Release date	1944;
Running time	95 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

Zoya (Russian: Зоя) is a 1944 Soviet biographical war film directed by Lev Arnshtam.^[1] It was entered into the 1946 Cannes Film Festival.^[2]

Synopsis

The film depicts the short life of a Moscow schoolgirl Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya who at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War became a partisan-infiltrator and was executed by the Germans in November 1941 near Moscow in a village Petrishcheva. She was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.

Cast

Galina Vodyanitskaya as Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya
Tamara Altseva as Zoya's Teacher
Aleksey Batalov
Anatoli Kuznetsov as Boris Fomin
Rostislav Plyatt as German Soldier
Boris Podgornij as German Officer
Vera Popova
Boris Poslavsky as Owl
Nikolai Ryzhov as Zoya's Father
Yekaterina Skvortsova as Zoya as a child (as Katya Skvortsova)
Kseniya Tarasova as Zoya's Mother
Yekaterina Tarasova as Katya Tarasova
Vladimir Volchek as Komsomol Secretary

References

^ Jay Leyda (1960). Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film. George Allen & Unwin. p. 379.
^ "Festival de Cannes: Zoya". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 4 January 2009.

External links

Zoya at AllMovie
Zoya on YouTube (English subtitles)
Zoya at IMDb

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[1] Jay Leyda (1960). Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film. George Allen & Unwin. p. 379.

[festival-cannes.com-2] "Festival de Cannes: Zoya". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 4 January 2009.

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