Song of Russia

Feb 10, 1944

1h 47m

★ 8.0

Flaming Love Story of an American

Overview

American conductor John Meredith and his manager, Hank Higgins, go to Russia shortly before the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. Meredith falls in love with beautiful Soviet pianist Nadya Stepanova while they travel throughout the country on a 40-city tour. Along the way, they see happy, healthy, smiling, free Soviet citizens, blissfully living the Communist dream. This bliss is destroyed by the German invasion.

Genres

Drama

Music

Romance

War

Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

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Cast

John Meredith

Robert Taylor

Nadya Stepanova

Susan Peters

Boris Bulganov

John Hodiak

Hank Higgins

Robert Benchley

Petrov

Felix Bressart

Ivan Stepanov

Michael Chekhov

Peter Bulganov

Darryl Hickman

Anna Bulganov

Jacqueline White

Stasha Bulganov

Patricia Prest

Sonia

Joan Lorring

German (uncredited)

Julius Cramer

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