Ballad of a Soldier

About Ballad of a Soldier

During World War II, earnest young Russian soldier Alyosha Skvortsov is rewarded with a short leave of absence for performing a heroic deed on the battlefield. Feeling homesick, he decides to visit his mother.

Ballad of a Soldier is a 1959 romance war film directed by Grigoriy Chukhray. It runs 89 minutes and was released in December 1959.

Its themes are soldier, reflective, return home, and russian soldier.

Vladimir Ivashov appears as Alyosha Skvortsov, Zhanna Prokhorenko as Shura, Antonina Maksimova as Katerina, Alyosha's Mother, and Nikolay Kryuchkov as The General. The screenplay is by Grigoriy Chukhray and Valentin Ezhov. It streams on Criterion Channel in the United States.

Dunkirk, Hacksaw Ridge, and The Others make useful companions to Ballad of a Soldier, all filed under world war ii. TMDB voters put it at 8.0 out of 10 across 230 votes.