The Alive and the Dead

A Russian war correspondent is drafted into the war and finds himself in the middle of battle When he loses his party card however he is treated as a deserter until he finds help from a kind man This Soviet war feature was considerably outspoken for the time as it addressed issues such as antiStalinism Siberia and the inhumanity of war Adapting his screenplay from a book by Constantin Simonov Alexandre Stolper was responsible for writing as well as directing