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Zoya (film)
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Wikipedia article
'Zoya' is a 1944 Soviet biographical war film directed by Lev Arnshtam. It was entered into the 1946 Cannes Film Festival.
Plot
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 the Germans in November 1941 near Moscow in a village Petrishcheva. She was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.
Cast
*Galina Vodyanitskaya as Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya
*Tamara Altseva as Zoya's Teacher
*Aleksey Batalov
*Anatoli Kuznetsov as Boris Fomin
*Rostislav Plyatt as German Soldier
*Boris Podgornij as German Officer
*Vera Popova
*Boris Poslavsky as Owl
*Nikolai Ryzhov as Zoya's Father
*Yekaterina Skvortsova as Zoya as a child (as Katya Skvortsova)
*Kseniya Tarasova as Zoya's Mother
*Yekaterina Tarasova as Katya Tarasova
*Vladimir Volchek as Komsomol Secretary
References
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