The Alive and the Dead

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.

War Drama

Kirill Lavrov

(Sintsov)

Anatoliy Papanov

(Serpilin)

Aleksey Glazyrin

(Malinin)

Oleg Efremov

(Ivanov)

Lyudmila Krylova

(Ovsyannikova)

Lev Lyubetsky

(Shmakov)

Lyudmila Lyubimova

(Masha)

Vasiliy Makarov

(Zaychikov)

Roman Khomyatov

(Lyusin)

Zinovi Vysokovsky

(Misha)

Yuriy Dubrovin

(Zolotaryov)

Igor Pushkaryov

(Khoryshev)

Vladlen Paulus

(Danilov)

Boris Chirkov

(Biryukov)

Viktor Avdyushko

(Shestakov)

Evgeniy Samoylov

(commander of the communist battalion)

Oleg Tabakov

(special officer)

Lev Kruglyy

(Komarov)

Vladimir Gorelov

(pilot)

Vladimir Kulik

(Ryabchenko)

Yuri Volkov

(Baranov)

Mikhail Ulyanov

(Sergei Filippovich)

Yevgeni Shutov

(policeman)

Nikolai Sergeyev

(Zosima Ivanovich)

Vladimir Muravyov

(battalion commissar)

Raisa Kurkina

(Baranova)

Sofya Pavlova

(Serpilina)

Vladimir Marenkov

(Kozyryov)

Vladimir Shibankov

(Leonidov)

Valentina Telegina

(Pasha Kulikov's aunt)

Boris Yurchenko

(Kovalchuk)

O. Yakushev

(Sytin)

Mikhail Gluzskiy

(Orlov)

Mikhail Vorobyov

(Efremov)

Arina Aleynikova

(Lenka)

Boris Bityukov

(colonel)

Yuriy Veryovkin

Boris Ardov

(Yolkin)

Leonid Khmara

(narrator (voice))

Vladimir Vysotsky

(cheerful soldier (uncredited))

Mikhail Dadyko

((uncredited))

Aleksandr Mylnikov

((uncredited))

Aleksandr Petrov

((uncredited))

Ivan Savkin

((uncredited))

Konstantin Sarynin

((uncredited))

Vladimir Ferapontov

((uncredited))

Lev Frichinsky

((uncredited))

Alla Budnitskaya

((uncredited))

Vladimir Lippart

((uncredited))

Vladimir Pitsek

((uncredited))

Konstantin Severnyy

((uncredited))

Georgy Semyonov

((uncredited))

Nikolay Sibeikin

((uncredited))

Lyubov Sokolova

((uncredited))

Aleksandr Titov

((uncredited))

Sergey Yurtaykin

((uncredited))

Stanislav Baykov

((uncredited))

Filimon Sergeyev

((uncredited))

Yuriy Veryovkin

((uncredited))

Boris Chukaev

((uncredited))

Oleg Khabalov

((uncredited))

Gennady Bukharov

((uncredited))