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The Boy from Stalingrad is a 1943 American film.
The plot centers on Russian youths in the path of the German army's assault on Stalingrad, who are forced to band together and rely on themselves to survive. They set fire to the grain harvest, rescue and care for other abandoned children, sabotage a tank, and fight back against the Nazis as best they can.
The actual Battle of Stalingrad ended at the beginning of February 1943. This pro-Soviet film belongs in the same class as the better-known 1943 Mission to Moscow from Warners', RKO's 1943 The North Star, and MGM's 1944 Song of Russia. They were all pieces of wartime propaganda, officially approved and encouraged by the U.S. government, which wanted to keep the alliance with the Soviets strong. The films would prove painfully embarrassing to their producers just a few years later, when the U.S. went back to treating the Soviet Union as an adversary.
Original Release
05/20/1943
US Release
05/20/1943
Cast
Name | Character |
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Bobby Samarzich | Kolya |
Conrad Binyon | Grisha |
Mary Lou Harrington | Nadya |
Scotty Beckett | Pavel |
Steven Muller | Tommy Hudson |
Donald Mayo | Yuri |
John Wengraf | German Major |
Erik Rolf | German Captain |
Wilhelm von Brincken | German General |
Louis Adlon | German Corporal |
Directors
Writers
Robert Arden, Robert Lee Johnson, Ferdinand Reyher
Cast
Name | Character |
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Bobby Samarzich | Kolya |
Conrad Binyon | Grisha |
Mary Lou Harrington | Nadya |
Scotty Beckett | Pavel |
Steven Muller | Tommy Hudson |
Donald Mayo | Yuri |
John Wengraf | German Major |
Erik Rolf | German Captain |
Wilhelm von Brincken | German General |
Louis Adlon | German Corporal |
Felix Basch | German Colonel |
Frederic Brunn | General's Adjutant |
Willy Castello | German Sergeant |
Igor Dolgoruki | Russian Commander |
Rolf Lindau | German Sergeant |
William Marshall | Sergeant |
Peter Michael | German Corporal |
Ferdinand Schumann-Heink | German Sentry |
John Arthur Stockton | Russian Lieutenant |
Michael Westfall | Ivan |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Irving Briskin | Executive Producer |
Colbert Clark | Producer |