Zoya | |
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Directed by | Lev Arnshtam |
Written by | Lev Arnshtam Boris Chirskov |
Starring | Galina Vodyanitskaya |
Cinematography | Aleksandr Shelenkov |
Music by | Dmitri Shostakovich [1] |
Distributed by | Soyuzdetfilm |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
Country | Soviet Union |
Language | Russian |
Zoya ( Russian: Зоя) is a 1944 Soviet biographical war film directed by Lev Arnshtam. [2] Margarita Aliger’s poem with the same name which had been published in September 1942 was the inspiration of the film. [1] It was entered into the 1946 Cannes Film Festival. [3]
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.