Private Aleksandr Matrosov

Private Aleksandr Matrosov (Рядовой Александр Матросов) is a 1947 Soviet war drama directed by Leonid Lukov.

Plot
The film is a dramatization of the life of Alexander Matrosov, a Red Army soldier who was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union for blocking a German machine gun with his body during a 1943 battle, killing him but blocking further fire against other advancing Soviet soldiers.

Cast

 * Anatoliy Ignatyev as Aleksandr Matrosov (as Anatoli Ignatyev)
 * Pyotr Konstantinov as Ivan Chumakov
 * Konstantin Sorokin as Misha Skvortsov
 * Shamsi Kiyamov as Khadyn Abdurakhmanov
 * Lavrenti Masokha as Vasya Petrov
 * Vladimir Balashov as Kostya Ilyin
 * Oleg Zhakov as Captain Vasili Shcherbina
 * Mikhail Kuznetsov as Captain Kolosov
 * Anatoli Nelidov as Nikolai Gavrilovich
 * Faina Ranevskaya as Doctor