The Boy from Stalingrad

May 20, 1943

1h 9m

★ 0.0

Hollywood's first drama of Russia's young heroes.

Overview

If J.M. Barrie had had a hand in Tarkovsky's IVAN'S CHILDHOOD, it might like something like this bizarre boys' adventure confection. Surprised by the advancing German Army while gathering wheat outside their village, a spunky band of Russian adolescents employs a combination of wits and heroic self-sacrifice to defeat a Nazi battalion, blow up a tank, and save the people of Stalingrad from imminent destruction. A rarely-seen entry in Hollywoood's brief wartime spate of pro-Soviet propaganda films, THE BOY FROM STALINGRAD stars Serbian-American child actor Bobby Samarzich, who went on to found one of Southern California's greatest tamburitza bands.

Genres

Drama

War

Production Companies

Columbia Pictures

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Cast

Kolya

Bobby Samarzich

Grisha

Conrad Binyon

Nadya

Mary Lou Harrington

Pavel

Scotty Beckett

Tommy Hudson

Steven Muller

Yuri

Donald Mayo

German Major

John Wengraf

German Captain

Erik Rolf

German General

Wilhelm von Brincken

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