Soldiers Were Walking (1959)
October 1917. Russian and German soldiers, exhausted by three years of war, began to fraternize. But officers' bullets shot the fraternizers. The survivors - Ilya, Matvey, nurse Olga and German soldier Jakob - swore in front of the fallen soldiers to reach St. Petersburg and achieve peace for all.
- Released
- 1959-02-23
- Genres
- Drama, War, History
- Runtime
- 81 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Leonid Trauberg
- TMDB rating
- 7.0/10 from 1 votes
Cast
- Sergei Bondarchuk as Matvey Krylov - soldat
- Andrei Petrov as Ilya Sorokin - soldat
- Erast Garin as Jakob Hoffmann - nemetskiy soldat
- Elza Lezhdey as Olga Kartseva - medsestra
- Mikhail Ulyanov as Yegor Mikhaylov- soldat
- Maria Pastukhova as Nadezhda Krylskaya
- Tatyana Doronina as Khrista
- Vladimir Belokurov as General
- Oleg Efremov as Senyka Radunskiy - dezertir i spekyulant
- Konstantin Adashevsky as City mayor
- Aleksandr Gumburg as Cossack
- Nina Belyayeva as Drunk woman