Zoya (film)
Zoya | |
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Film poster | |
Directed by | Lev Arnshtam |
Written by |
Lev Arnshtam Boris Chirskov |
Starring | Galina Vodyanitskaya |
Music by | Dmitri Shostakovich |
Cinematography | Aleksandr Shelenkov |
Distributed by | Soyuzdetfilm |
Release dates |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
Country | Soviet Union |
Language | Russian |
Zoya (Russian: Зоя) is a 1944 Soviet biographical war film directed by Lev Arnshtam. It was entered into the 1946 Cannes Film Festival.[1]
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
- ↑ "Festival de Cannes: Zoya". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 4 January 2009.
External links
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