Zoya (1944 film)
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Directed byLev Arnshtam
Written byLev Arnshtam
Boris Chirskov
Boris Chirskov
StarringGalina Vodyanitskaya
CinematographyAleksandr Shelenkov
| Zoya | |
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| Directed by | Lev Arnshtam |
| Written by | Lev Arnshtam Boris Chirskov |
| Starring | Galina Vodyanitskaya |
| Cinematography | Aleksandr Shelenkov |
| Music by | Dmitri Shostakovich[1] |
| Distributed by | Soyuzdetfilm |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
| Country | Soviet Union |
| Language | Russian |
Zoya (Russian: Зоя) is a 1944 Soviet biographical war film directed by Lev Arnshtam.[2] Margarita Aliger’s poem with the same name which had been published in September 1942 was the inspiration of the film.[1] It was entered into the 1946 Cannes Film Festival.[3]
The film depicts the short life of a Moscow schoolgirl Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, who, at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, became a partisan-infiltrator and was executed by German soldiers in November 1941 near Moscow, in the village of Petrishcheva. She was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.
