Movie Settings Database

The Alive and the Dead

Where:

🇧🇾 Belarus 🇷🇺 Russia

When:

The 1940s

A Russian war correspondent is drafted into the war and finds himself in the middle of battle. When he loses his party card, however, he is treated as a deserter until he finds help from a kind man. This Soviet war feature was considerably outspoken for the time as it addressed issues such as anti-Stalinism, Siberia and the inhumanity of war. Adapting his screenplay from a book by Constantin Simonov, Alexandre Stolper was responsible for writing as well as directing.

Released in 1963 — 201 minutes

Genres:

War Drama

Language:

Russian