Hollywood's first drama of Russia's young heroes.
If J.M. Barrie had had a hand in Tarkovsky's IVAN'S CHILDHOOD, it might like something like this bizarre boys' adventure confection. Surprised by the advancing German Army while gathering wheat outside their village, a spunky band of Russian adolescents employs a combination of wits and heroic self-sacrifice to defeat a Nazi battalion, blow up a tank, and save the people of Stalingrad from imminent destruction. A rarely-seen entry in Hollywoood's brief wartime spate of pro-Soviet propaganda films, THE BOY FROM STALINGRAD stars Serbian-American child actor Bobby Samarzich, who went on to found one of Southern California's greatest tamburitza bands.
Sidney Salkow
Director
Ferdinand Reyher
Writer
Bobby Samarzich
Kolya
Conrad Binyon
Grisha
Mary Lou Harrington
Nadya
Scotty Beckett
Pavel
Steven Muller
Tommy Hudson
Donald Mayo
Yuri
John Wengraf
German Major
Erik Rolf
German Captain
Wilhelm von Brincken
German General
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