Private Aleksandr Matrosov (Russian: Рядовой Александр Матросов) is a 1947 Soviet war drama directed by Leonid Lukov.
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Plot
The film is a dramatization of the life of Alexander Matrosov, a Red Army soldier who was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union for blocking a German machine gun with his body during a 1943 battle, killing him but blocking further fire against other advancing Soviet soldiers.
Cast
Anatoly Ignatyev as Alexander Matrosov
Pyotr Konstantinov as Ivan Konstantinovich Chumakov
Konstantin Sorokin as Misha Skvortsov
Shamsi Kiyomov as Khadyn Abdurakhmanov
Lavrenty Masokha as Vasya Petrov
Vladimir Balashov as Kostya Ilyin
Oleg Zhakov as Captain Vasily Shcherbina
Mikhail Kuznetsov as Captain Kolosov
Anatoly Nelidov as Nikolai Gavrilovich
Faina Ranevskaya as military doctor
Aleksei Dikiy as Joseph Stalin (scenes removed in 1963)