Zoya (1944 film)

1944 war film by Lev Arnshtam

  • 1944 (1944)
Running time
95 minutesCountrySoviet UnionLanguageRussian

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

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

  • 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

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Jay Leyda (1960). Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film. George Allen & Unwin. p. 379.
  3. ^ "Festival de Cannes: Zoya". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 4 January 2009.
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