''Zoya'' (russian: Зоя) is a 1944 Soviet

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directed by

Lev Arnshtam Lev Oskarovich Arnshtam (russian: Лео Оскарович Арншта́м; 15 January 1905 – 26 December 1979) was a Soviet film director and screenwriter. He directed nine films between 1936 and 1967. Arnshtam was named People’s Artist o ...

. It was entered into the

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Plot

The film depicts the short life of a Moscow schoolgirl

Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya Zoya Anatolyevna Kosmodemyanskaya ( rus, Зо́я Анато́льевна Космодемья́нская, p=ˈzojə kəsmədʲɪˈmʲjanskəjə; September 13, 1923 – November 29, 1941) was a Soviet partisan. She was executed after acts of s ...

who at the beginning of the

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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

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Cast

* Galina Vodyanitskaya as

* Tamara Altseva as Zoya's Teacher *

Aleksey Batalov Aleksey Vladimirovich Batalov (russian: link=no, Алексе́й Влади́мирович Бата́лов; 20 November 1928 – 15 June 2017) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, film director, screenwriter and pedagogue acclaimed f ...

* Anatoli Kuznetsov as Boris Fomin *

Rostislav Plyatt Rostislav Yanovich Plyatt (russian: Ростислав Янович Плятт; — 30 June 1989) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. He was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1961 and awarded the USSR State Prize in 1982. Biograph ...

as German Soldier * Boris Podgornij as German Officer *

Vera Popova Vera Yevstafievna Popova, née Vera Bogdanovskaya (Вера Евстафьевна Попова; 17 September 1867 – 8 May 1896) was a Russian chemist. She was one of the first female chemists in Russia, and the first Russian female author of ...

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as Owl *

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as Zoya's Father * Yekaterina Skvortsova as Zoya as a child (as Katya Skvortsova) *

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as Zoya's Mother * Yekaterina Tarasova as Katya Tarasova *Vladimir Volchek as Komsomol Secretary

References

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* * 1944 films 1944 drama films 1940s biographical drama films 1940s war drama films Soviet biographical drama films Russian biographical drama films Russian black-and-white films Soviet war drama films Russian war drama films 1940s Russian-language films Soviet black-and-white films Films directed by Lev Arnshtam Eastern Front of World War II films Films set in Russia Films scored by Dmitri Shostakovich Russian World War II films Soviet World War II films {{bio-film-stub