The Living and the Dead (1964 film)

The Living and the Dead
The Living and the Dead
	Film poster
Directed by	Aleksandr Stolper
Written by	Aleksandr Stolper; Konstantin Simonov (novel)
Produced by	Lazar Milkis
Starring	Kirill Lavrov; Viktor Avdyushko; Anatoli Papanov
Cinematography	Nikolai Olonovsky
Edited by	Yekaterina Ovsyannikova
Production; company	Mosfilm
Release date	22 February 1964
Running time	201 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

The Living and the Dead (

The Living and the Dead by Konstantin Simonov.^[1]

Plot

The film takes place in a time warp from the first days of the

Great Patriotic War and until the middle of the winter of 1941–1942, before the beginning of the Soviet counterattack near Moscow. Ivan Sintsov (Kirill Lavrov) is a correspondent with an army newspaper. The war starts while he is on vacation with his wife. He tries to return to his unit which is located in Western Belarus. However, it is impossible since the unit is overrun by the advancing Wehrmacht. Near the town of Borisov, he meets another officer also trying to reach his unit. They go on a road and try to get a car going in the direction they need. As the other officer stopped the car, a German air raid starts. The direct hit blows up the officer and the car he stops. Sintsov continues his journey alone. He is eventually assigned to one military newspaper, located in Mogilev and, later, another near Yelnia

. The movie describes his work as a war correspondent during these trying times.