Zoya (1944 film)
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| Directed by | Lev Arnshtam |
| Written by | Lev Arnshtam Boris Chirskov |
| Starring | Galina Vodyanitskaya |
| Cinematography | Aleksandr Shelenkov |
| Music by | Dmitri Shostakovich[1] |
| Distributed by | Soyuzdetfilm |
Release date |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
| Country | Soviet Union |
| Language | Russian |
Zoya (Russian: Зоя) is a 1944 Soviet biographical war film directed by Lev Arnshtam.[2] Margarita Aliger’s poem with the same name which had been published in September 1942 was the inspiration of the film.[1] It was entered into the 1946 Cannes Film Festival.[3]
Plot
[edit]The film depicts the short life of a Moscow schoolgirl Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya who at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War became a partisan-infiltrator and was executed by the Germans in November 1941 near Moscow in a village Petrishcheva. She was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.
Cast
[edit]- Galina Vodyanitskaya as Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya
- Tamara Altseva as Zoya's Teacher
- Aleksey Batalov
- Anatoli Kuznetsov as Boris Fomin
- Rostislav Plyatt as German Soldier
- Boris Podgornij as German Officer
- Vera Popova
- Boris Poslavsky as Owl
- Nikolai Ryzhov as Zoya's Father
- Yekaterina Skvortsova as Zoya as a child (as Katya Skvortsova)
- Kseniya Tarasova as Zoya's Mother
- Yekaterina Tarasova as Katya Tarasova
- Vladimir Volchek as Komsomol Secretary
References
[edit]- ^ a b Lisa A. Kirschenbaum; Nancy M. Wingfield (July 2009). "Gender and the Construction of Wartime Heroism in Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union". European History Quarterly. 39 (3): 470. doi:10.1177/0265691409105062. S2CID 145554139.
- ^ Jay Leyda (1960). Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film. George Allen & Unwin. p. 379.
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: Zoya". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 4 January 2009.
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