The Star (1949 film)

The Star
Directed byAleksandr Ivanov
Written byPavel Furmanskiy
Emmanuil Kazakevich
Produced byPavel Armand
Iosif Gindin
Aleksandr Ivanov
StarringAnatoly Verbitsky
Alexey Pokrovsky
Oleg Zhakov
CinematographySergei Ivanov
Vladimir Rapoport
Music byVenedikt Pushkov
Production
company
Release date
  • 21 September 1953 (1953-09-21)
Running time
88 minutes
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageRussian

The Star (Russian: Звезда, romanized: Zvezda) is a 1949 Soviet war drama film directed by Aleksandr Ivanov and starring Anatoly Verbitsky, Alexey Pokrovsky and Oleg Zhakov. The film was completed in 1949, but was not released for four years. It portrays a group of Soviet soldiers who are cut off and surrounded by German troops during the Second World War.

The film was remade in 2002.