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The Alive and the Dead

The Alive and the Dead

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jun 6, 1963

Runtime

3h 21m

Genres

War, Drama

User Score

57%

Original Title

Живые и мертвые

Production Companies

Mosfilm

Director

Aleksandr Stolper

Description

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.