Song of Russia (1944)

Directed by

Gregory Ratoff, László Benedek

Genre

drama film, war film, propaganda film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 47m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 6 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An American conductor tours Russia in the late 1930s and falls in love with a Soviet pianist. They get married just before Germany invades the country and they must navigate the hardships of war.

patrioticsentimentalmelodramaticstagedarchaicwar-timeformalromanticized

What happens

Song of Russia is a 1944 American war film made and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The picture was credited as being directed by Gregory Ratoff, though Ratoff became ill near the end of the five-month production and was replaced by László Benedek, who completed principal photography; the credited screenwriters were Paul Jarrico and Richard J. Collins. The film stars Robert Taylor, Susan Peters, and Robert Benchley. Most of the score is adaptations of Tchaikovsky compositions by Herbert Stothart. Jerome Kern and Yip Harburg contributed the song "And Russia Is Her Name". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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