The Alive and the Dead (1964)

Name: The Alive and the Dead
Rating: 3.9

3.9 of 5 from 45 ratings

3h 21min

Not released

Synopsis:: The film takes place in the time interval from the first days of the Great Patriotic War until the middle of the winter of 1941-1942, until the beginning of the Soviet counterattack near Moscow. The correspondent of the army military newspaper Ivan Sintsov (Kirill Lavrov), who was on vacation, was returning to his unit as part of the Western Front when the war began. However, he failed to get to the unit. Already in the first days, under the onslaught of the Wehrmacht, Soviet troops retreated. Instead of his unit, he got to the assembly point in the city of Borisov. There he was sent to headquarters along with another officer.
Actors:: Kirill Lavrov, Anatoliy Papanov, Aleksey Glazyrin, Oleg Efremov, Lyudmila Krylova, Lev Lyubetskiy, Vasili Makarov, Roman Khomyatov, Zinovi Vysokovsky, Yevgeni Samojlov, Oleg Tabakov, Boris Chirkov, Igor Pushkaryov, Viktor Avdyushko, Vladimir Muravyov, Arina Aleynikova, Boris Ardov, Boris Bityukov, Yuriy Dubrovin, Mikhail Gluzskiy
Directors:: Aleksandr Stolper
Writers:: Konstantin Simonov, Aleksandr Stolper
Aka:: Die Lebenden und die Toten / Zhivye i myortvye
Genres:: Action & Adventure, Classics, Drama
Countries:: Soviet Union