The Alive and the Dead (1964)

Original title

Живые и мертвые

Directed by

Aleksandr Stolper

Genre

drama film, war film

Country

Soviet Union

Runtime

3h 21m

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 10 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Soviet journalist gets caught up in the chaos of World War II after the German invasion. He witnesses the hardships of soldiers retreating and fighting on the Eastern Front.

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What happens

The Living and the Dead (Russian: Живые и мёртвые, romanized: Zhivye i myortvye) is a 1964 Soviet World War II drama film directed by Aleksandr Stolper and produced by Mosfilm based on the 1959 novel The Living and the Dead by Konstantin Simonov. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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