A Russian Youth

A Russian Youth

72 mins | Drama, War | Feb. 10, 2019

A teenage soldier in World War I—a simple village boy with a naive youthful dream of fame and medals—throws himself into the unknown and goes blind in the first battle, thus taking on a new job: intercepting enemy planes by listening to the air through huge metal funnels.

A Russian Youth

72 mins | Drama, War | Feb. 10, 2019

A Russian Youth
A teenage soldier in World War I—a simple village boy with a naive youthful dream of fame and medals—throws himself into the unknown and goes blind in the first battle, thus taking on a new job: intercepting enemy planes by listening to the air through huge metal funnels.
IMDb rating 6.3
Producers Russian Ministry of Culture, Example of Intonation, Lenfilm
Original title Мальчик русский
Directors Vadim Kaurov, Alexandr Zolotukhin
Writers Alexandr Zolotukhin, Aleksandr Sokurov

Cast

Vladimir Korolyov

as Private Aleksei

Mikhail Buturlov

as Private Nazarka

Artyom Leshchik

as Non-Commissioned Officer Makar Petrovich

Danil Tyabin

as Soldier-Sanitarian

Sergei Goncharenko

as Lieutenant

Filipp Dyachkov

as Soldier-Agitator