Chukhrai, Grigori, Ivashov, Vladimir, Kryuchkov, Nikolai, Maksimova, Antonina, Prokhorenko, Zhanna, Urbansky, Yevgeni	...	(Director)
Grigoriy Chukhray, Valentin Ezhov	...	(Writer)
Vladimir Ivashov	...	Pvt. Alyosha Skvortsov
Zhanna Prokhorenko	...	Shura
Antonina Maksimova	...	The mother
Nikolai Kryuchkov	...	The general
Yevgeni Urbansky	...	Vasya (the invalid)
Elza Lezhdey	...	The invalid's wife
Aleksandr Kuznetsov	...	Gavrilkin (the train sentry)
Yevgeni Teterin	...	The lieutenant ('A terrible beast')
V. Markova	...	Liza (Pavlov's wife)
Marina Kremnyova	...	Zoya (neighbor girl)
Vladimir Pokrovsky	...	Pavlov's invalid father
Georgi Yumatov	...	Sergeant giving bars of soap
Gennadi Yukhtin	...	Pvt. Seryozha Pavlov
Valentina Telegina	...	Old woman truck driver
Lev Borisov	...	Joking soldier on train

Comments: DRUS 117

Summary: Russian soldier Alyosha Skvortsov is granted a visit with his mother after he singlehandedly fends off two enemy tanks. As he journeys home, Alyosha encounters the devastation of his war-torn country, witnesses glimmers of hope among the people, and falls in love. With its poetic visual imagery, Grigori Chukhrai's Ballad of a Soldier is an unconventional meditation on the effects of war, and a milestone in Russian cinema.