Ballad of Siberia

Ballad of Siberia
Directed byIvan Pyryev
Written by
  • Ivan Pyryev (story)
  • Evgeniy Pomeshchikov
  • Nikolai Rozhkov
Starring
CinematographyValentin Pavlov
Edited byAnna Kulganek
Music byNikolai Kryukov
Production
company
Release date
  • 1948 (1948)
Running time
114 minutes
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageRussian

The Ballad of Siberia (in Russian: Сказание о земле Сибирской, romanized: Skazanie o zemle sibirskoy), also known as Symphony of Life,[1][2] produced by Mosfilm and released in 1948, was the Soviet Union's second color film (after The Stone Flower). It was directed by Ivan Pyryev and starred Vladimir Druzhnikov and Marina Ladynina.

It is a Soviet style musical movie, full of songs, such as "The Wanderer", describing the development of Siberia after World War II.

  1. ^ Lars Karl, Pavel Skopal (2015). Cinema in Service of the State: Perspectives on Film Culture in the GDR and Czechoslovakia, 1945-1960. Berghahn Books. p. 254. ISBN 978-1-782-38997-2.
  2. ^ Dorota Ostrowska, Francesco Pitassio, Zsuzsanna Varga (2017). Popular Cinemas in East Central Europe: Film Cultures and Histories. I.B.Tauris. ISBN 978-1-786-72239-3.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)