The Alive and the Dead

Release Date: 1963-06-06

Overview: A Russian war correspondent is drafted into the war and finds himself in the middle of battle. When he loses his party card, however, he is treated as a deserter until he finds help from a kind man. This Soviet war feature was considerably outspoken for the time as it addressed issues such as anti-Stalinism, Siberia and the inhumanity of war. Adapting his screenplay from a book by Constantin Simonov, Alexandre Stolper was responsible for writing as well as directing.

Rating: 5.7 / 10

Cast

Kirill Lavrov

as Иван Петрович Синцов, старший политрук

Anatoliy Papanov

as Федор Федорович Серпилин, генерал

Aleksey Glazyrin

as Алексей Денисович Малинин, старший политрук

Oleg Efremov

as полковник Иванов

Lev Lyubetsky

as Сергей Николаевич Шмаков, батальонный комиссар