Extended Reading
  • Yasmin 2022-01-20 08:01:36

    Soldier's Song

    Soviet Road Movies of World War II, not pretentious, true and concise. After thousands of hardships, Alyosha rushed home, but could only hug his mother before continuing to the front line. For the country, he was just one of many ordinary soldiers, and for his mother, he was her only son. The first...

  • Zion 2022-03-23 09:03:09

    The poetic romance and sadness of "Song of the Soldiers"

    It's been a long time since I wrote a movie review seriously. On the one hand, I don't have time to write it. On the other hand, it's because my feelings have become more and more numb, and it's hard to be touched by a certain movie. And today, this poetic old Soviet film, shot in 1959, finally...

  • Unique 2022-03-20 09:02:41

    Reflecting on war, there is no high-level heroism, no fierce and thrilling war scenes, no dedication without hesitation, no triumphant song of total victory, just a little correspondent's resistance out of complete survival instinct, with a little bit of resistance. Fortunately, he became a hero; but he didn’t care about it. He just wanted to go home to meet his mother and repair the roof; he helped his comrades along the way, met love, recognized the true and false, but he was only 19 years old.

  • Chaya 2022-04-20 09:02:21

    War has never been the protagonist in the movie, but it is everywhere; in the background of the war, all the emotions are infinitely full, pure and extremely tense. Left to the hero's mother, echoing the beginning and the end, it is a pure shock!

Ballad of a Soldier quotes

  • Alyosha Skvortsov: Comrade General, instead of my decoration, could I go home to see my mother?