A soldier's tale from Khrushchev's USSR. (Nikita Khrushchev; the making of 'The Ballad of a Soldier')(From the Soviet Archives)

From: History Today | Date: November 1, 1995| Author: | Copyright information

The director who made the award-winning World War II film 'The Ballad of a Soldier' describes the process he endured to make and exhibit the movie. The Soviet cinema authorities tried to restrict the film's distribution, but when it won a prize at Cannes in 1960, the movie was given a general USSR release.

Born in the Ukraine in 1921, Grigori Chukhrai has a prominent place in Soviet cultural history by virtue of his position in the new wave of more open film-making that emerged after Stalin's death.

Chukhrai (left) first came to prominence in 1956 with his film The 41, which was an ...

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