Zoya (1944 film)

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Zoya
Zoya (film).jpg
Film poster
Directed by Lev Arnshtam
Written byLev Arnshtam
Boris Chirskov
Starring Galina Vodyanitskaya
CinematographyAleksandr Shelenkov
Music by Dmitri Shostakovich [1]
Distributed by Soyuzdetfilm
Release date
  • 1944 (1944)
Running time
95 minutes
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageRussian

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]

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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.

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References

  1. 1 2 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.