Zoya (1944)
Зоя
The true story of one of Russia's most beloved national heroines. During the Nazi siege of Moscow, a fearless 18-year-old girl named Zoya risked her life as a partisan fighter. Captured by the Germans, Zoya endured unspeakable tortures at the hands of the Gestapo but still refused to betray her comrades. Even on the gallows, Zoya defiantly spoke out against the Nazis and everything they stood for. In a series of flashbacks, this film re-creates not merely Zoya's death, but also her life.
- Date of release
- 1944-11-23
- TMDB
- 4.6 / 10 (7)
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- Genres
- War, Drama
- Director
- Lev Arnshtam
Casting
- Galina Vodyanitskaya — Zoya Kosmodem'yanskaya
- Rostislav Plyatt — German Soldier
- Yekaterina Skvortsova — Zoya as a child
- Kseniya Tarasova — Zoya's Mother
- Nikolai Ryzhov — Zoya's Father
- Aleksandr Kuznetsov — Boris Fomin
- Boris Poslavsky — Owl
- Vladimir Volchik — Komsomol Secretary
- Vera Popova — Hostess of the house
- Tamara Altseva — Anna Sergeevna, Zoya's Teacher
- Zoya Zhukova — Zina, Zoya's classmate
- Nikolai Bogatyryov — Petya Vasilev
Interesting facts
Zoya is a 1944 Soviet biographical war film directed by Lev Arnshtam. Margarita Aliger’s poem with the same name which had been published in September 1942 was the inspiration of the film. It was entered into the 1946 Cannes Film Festival.
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