The Star (2002 film)

The Star
Official English language poster
Directed byNikolai Lebedev
Written byYevgeny Grigoriev
Nikolai Lebedev
Alexander Borodyansky
Produced byKaren Shakhnazarov
Starring
Music byAlexey Rybnikov
Distributed byMosfilm
Release date
  • 6 May 2002 (2002-05-06) (Russia)
Running time
97 minutes
CountryRussia
LanguageRussian

The Star (Russian: Звезда, translit. Zvezda) is a 2002 Russian film directed by Nikolai Lebedev, a large modern project of Mosfilm. It is based on a short story of the same name by Emmanuil Kazakevich, about a group of Soviet scouts working behind enemy lines during Operation Bagration in World War II. The story had previously been made into a 1953 film of the same name.

Aleksei Kravchenko won a government award for his role in this film.