Dir. Grigori Chukhrai. Starring Vladimir Ivashov, Zhanna Prokhorenko, Aleksandr Kuznetsov This is a short movie, less than ninety minutes from tip to tail, and what’s incredible about is that for, I dunno, eighty-two of those minutes I never would have dreamed that this was a movie about cruelty. Alyosha (Ivashov) is on his way back… Read More Ballad of a Soldier (1959)