Also People (1960)
Based on an excerpt from the novel by L.N.Tolstoy "War and Peace." The war of 1812. The defeated Napoleonic army is retreating. Three Russian soldiers settled in a snowy forest near a fire: a young (Zaletayev), an elderly and a middle-aged one. Zaletayev fantasizes — as if he had captured Napoleon. The soldiers laugh good-naturedly at him. After dinner, they fall asleep... Two Frenchmen go to the clearing — an officer and a soldier. Russian soldiers wake up and, seeing that the officer is barely standing on his feet from cold and hunger, take him to the colonel. The French soldier sits down to the fire. The Russians give him porridge and vodka. The soldier, encouraged, sings a french song. Zaletayev echoes him. A tired Frenchman falls asleep on Zaletayev’s shoulder. The soldiers carefully shelter him. “Also people,” an elderly soldier says with a sigh.
Director: Georgiy Daneliya
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Lev Durov as Zaletayev |
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Manos Zacharias as French Army officer |
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Vsevolod Sanayev as Old soldier |
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Yevgeni Kudryashov as Middle-aged soldier |
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Vladimir Ferapontov as French soldier |
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Georgi Millyar as French soldier (voice) |
| Camera | Nikolay Olonovskiy | Director of Photography |
| Directing | Georgiy Daneliya | Director |
| Writing | Leo Tolstoy | Novel |
| Sound | Inna Zelentsova | Sound |
| Art | Pyotr Veremenko | Production Design |
| Writing | Georgiy Daneliya | Writer |
| Production | Mikhail Yatakov | Producer |
