''The Boy from Stalingrad'' is a 1943 American
war film
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directed by
Sidney Salkow
Sidney Salkow (June 16, 1911 – October 18, 2000) was an American film director
A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulf ...
.
Plot
Five Russian youngsters and an English boy form a guerilla band which harasses the Germans stationed in their village.
Cast
* Bobby Samarzich as Kolya
* Conrad Binyon as Grisha
* Mary Lou Harrington as Nadya
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Scotty Beckett
Scott Hastings Beckett (October 4, 1929 – May 10, 1968) was an American actor. He began his career as a child actor in the ''Our Gang'' shorts and later costarred on ''Rocky Jones, Space Ranger''.
Early life and career
Born in Oakland, Califo ...
as Pavel
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Steven Muller
Steven Muller (November 22, 1927 – January 19, 2013) was the University president, president of the Johns Hopkins University, serving from 1972 to 1990.
He was born in Hamburg, Germany, the son of Marianne (née Hartstein) and Werner A. Mul ...
as Tommy Hudson
* Donald Mayo as Yuri
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John Wengraf
John Wengraf (23 April 1897 – 4 May 1974) was an Austrian actor.
Early years
Wengraf was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary.
Career
Wengraf became a matinee idol in the 1930s, and was director of the Vienna State Theatre. He emigrated to Brit ...
as German Major (as John E. Wengraf)
* Erik Rolf as German Captain
See also
*
List of American films of 1943
References
External links
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1943 films
American pro-Soviet propaganda films
American black-and-white films
Columbia Pictures films
Films directed by Sidney Salkow
Films set in Russia
Films about the Battle of Stalingrad
American war drama films
1940s war drama films
1943 drama films
1940s American films
1940s English-language films
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