• Ballad of a Soldier (Russian: Баллада о солдате, Ballada o soldate), is a 1959 Soviet war romance film directed by Grigory Chukhray and starring Vladimir...
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  • Zhanna Prokhorenko (category Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography alumni)
    1940 – 1 August 2011) was a Soviet and Russian actress, best known for her role in Grigory Chukhray's film Ballad of a Soldier. Prokhorenko was born in...
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  • Ballad of the Little Soldier (German: Ballade vom kleinen Soldaten) is a 1984 documentary film directed by Werner Herzog and Denis Reichle about child...
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  • Thaaye Unakkaga (category Indian remakes of foreign films)
    film has an ensemble cast. It is a remake of the 1959 Russian film Ballad of a Soldier. The film was released on 26 August 1966. Sivaji Ganesan as Captain...
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  • Yevgeni Urbansky (category Honored Artists of the RSFSR)
    Communist (1958), Ballad of a Soldier (1959), and Clear Skies (1961). At the age of thirty-three, the actor died in an accident while performing a stunt during...
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    Vladimir Ivashov (category Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography alumni)
    had two sons, Oleg and Alexey. Ballad of a Soldier (1959) as Alyosha Skvortsov Seven Nannies (1962) as Viktor Hero of Our Time (1965) as Grigory Pechorin...
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    seconds of Ballad of a Soldier turned into a Russian lesson. Fedorov, A. Record holders of the banned Soviet cinema (1951–1991) in the mirror of film criticism...
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  • Grigory Chukhray (category Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour)
    (1956). Chukhray directed and co-wrote Ballad of a Soldier (1959). Around the themes of love and the tragedy of war, the film received acclaim at home...
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  • Marc Platt (producer) (category New York University School of Law alumni)
    Platt was born and raised in a Conservative Jewish home in Pikesville, Maryland, the son of Sue Ellen (née Sezzin), a schoolteacher, and Howard Platt...
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    City, the son of Alfredo Cuarón, a doctor specializing in nuclear medicine, and Cristina Orozco, a pharmaceutical biochemist. He has a sister Christina...
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  • David Franzoni (category University of Vermont alumni)
    to use a standard narrative, explaining, "the typical slant in this sort of film is to have the poor, chained black man arrive in the presence of the white...
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    Mosfilm (category Film production companies of Russia)
    directed by Samson Samsonov 1959 Ballad of a Soldier, a war film directed by Grigori Chukhrai, a 1959 special jury prize winner of Cannes Film Festival and 1961...
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  • of several Soviet films of its period, such as The Cranes Are Flying and Ballad of a Soldier, that looked at the human cost of war and did not glorify...
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  • "The Ballad of the Green Berets" is a 1966 patriotic song in the ballad style about the United States Army Special Forces. Written and performed by Staff...
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    (both 1996), The Lonesome West (1997), The Lieutenant of Inishmore (2001), The Pillowman (2003), A Behanding in Spokane (2010), and Hangmen (2015). McDonagh...
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    Nikolay Smorchkov (category Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography alumni)
    patient in hospital Ballad of a Soldier (1959) as soldier Female Age-Mates (1959) as Anikin Five Days, Five Nights (1960) as soldier Ivan's Childhood (1962)...
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    economic activism, and has served as one of the United Nations Messengers of Peace since 2008. Clooney is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations....
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    recipient of various accolades, including two Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and a Primetime Emmy Award. One of the...
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  • (1940–2011), actress who starred in Grigori Chukhrai's 1959 film Ballad of a Soldier Zhanna, a play by Yaroslava Pulinovich, staged in 2014 with Ingeborga...
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    one of the major figures of the New Hollywood era. He has received many accolades, including an Academy Award, four BAFTA Awards, three Emmy Awards, a Grammy...
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    Life. Pasolini, an Italian count and a nephew of Luchino Visconti, studied at Atlantic College and the London School of Economics, and then worked as an investment...
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  • Douglas Wick (category Place of birth missing (living people))
    work includes producing Gladiator, Stuart Little, and Memoirs of a Geisha. Wick is the son of actress Mary Jane (Woods) and United States Information Agency...
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    Christopher Nolan (category Commanders of the Order of the British Empire)
    evacuation of Allied soldiers from the beaches of Dunkirk, France. Describing the film as a survival tale with a triptych structure, Nolan wanted to make a "sensory...
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    Steve McQueen (director) (category Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer BAFTA Award winners)
    Queen and Country, a piece that commemorated British soldiers killed in the Iraq War by presenting their portraits as sheets of stamps. A proposal to have...
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    Harvey Weinstein (category People stripped of a British Commonwealth honour)
    Madonna's W.E., Robert Altman's Prêt-à-Porter, and Tom Ford's A Single Man. Stars of Weinstein's films appeared on more than a dozen Vogue covers. In July 2024...
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    Roman Polanski (category Wikipedia temporarily semi-protected biographies of living people)
    German soldiers. Instead of running away like the rest, I felt compelled to watch. One older woman at the rear of the column couldn't keep up. A German...
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  • BAFTA Award for Best Film (category Lists of films by award)
    occasions of a film being nominated in two of these categories. There has been one tie for the Best Film Award when, in 1962, Ballad of a Soldier tied with...
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    Emma Thomas (category Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire)
    Thomas, Lady Nolan, DBE (born 9 December 1971) is a British film producer. She has produced all of the feature films directed by her husband Sir Christopher...
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    Mike Newell (director) (category Alumni of Magdalene College, Cambridge)
    and a Funeral (1994), which also won the BAFTA Award for Best Film, and directed the films Donnie Brasco (1997) and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire...
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    Richard Linklater (category Culture of Austin, Texas)
    of Rock (2003); the adult animated films Waking Life (2001), A Scanner Darkly (2006), and Apollo 10 1⁄2: A Space Age Childhood (2022); the coming-of-age...
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