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Private Aleksandr Matrosov

Private Aleksandr Matrosov is a 1947 Soviet war drama directed by Leonid Lukov.

Last revised
Jul 18, 2026
Read time
≈ 1 min
Length
246 w
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Source
Private Aleksandr Matrosov
Russian: Рядовой Александр Матросов
Directed byLeonid Lukov
Written byGiorgi Mdivani
Starring
CinematographyAleksandr Gintsburg
Edited byA. Klebanova
Lidiya Zhuchkova
Music byDavid Blok
Release date
  • 1947 (1947)
Running time
85 minutes
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageRussian

Private Aleksandr Matrosov (Russian: Рядовой Александр Матросов) is a 1947 Soviet war drama directed by Leonid Lukov.1234

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.5

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 doctor6
  • Aleksei Dikiy as Joseph Stalin (scenes removed in 1963)
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