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Ballad of a Soldier

Movie · 1959 · 88 min

A tender, bittersweet journey through wartime, balancing gentle romance with the quiet ache of loss and fleeting connections.

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1959 film by Grigori Chukhrai
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Year
1959
Runtime
88 min
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • romanticstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • love
  • war
  • family
  • grief
  • coming-of-age
Places
  • countryside
  • road trip
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror1
Humour3
Realism8
Romance7
Tension4
Darkness4
Complexity5
Emotional weight9

Details

Genres
drama, war, romance
Directed by
Grigori Chukhrai
Written by
Grigori Chukhrai, Valentin Ezhov
Starring
Nikolai Kryuchkov, Zhanna Prokhorenko, Vladimir Ivashov, Yevgeni Urbansky, Antonina Maksimova
Music
Mikhail Ziv
Cinematography
Era Savelyeva, Vladimir Nikolayev
Runtime
88 min
Country
Soviet Union
Languages
Russian

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