The Alive and the Dead

Year: 1963

Runtime: 201 mins

Language: Russian

Director: Aleksandr Stolper

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A Russian war correspondent is conscripted and thrust into front‑line combat. After losing his party card, he is branded a deserter until a compassionate stranger aids him. The Soviet film boldly tackles anti‑Stalinist themes, Siberian hardship and war’s cruelty. Directed and written by Alexandre Stolper, it adapts Constantin Simonov’s novel.

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