Zoya () is a 1944 Soviet biographical war film directed by Lev Arnshtam. Margarita Aliger’s poem with the same name which had been published in September 1942 was the inspiration of the film. It was entered into the 1946 Cannes Film Festival.
Plot
The film depicts the short life of a Moscow schoolgirl Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya who at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War became a partisan-infiltrator and was executed by the Germans in November 1941 near Moscow in a village Petrishcheva. She was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.
Cast
Galina Vodyanitskaya as Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya
Tamara Altseva as Zoya's Teacher
Aleksey Batalov
Anatoli Kuznetsov as Boris Fomin
Rostislav Plyatt as German Soldier
Boris Podgornij as German Officer
Vera Popova
Boris Poslavsky as Owl
Nikolai Ryzhov as Zoya's Father
Yekaterina Skvortsova as Zoya as a child (as Katya Skvortsova) Kseniya Tarasova as Zoya's Mother Yekaterina Tarasova as Katya Tarasova Vladimir Volchek as Komsomol Secretary