Private Aleksandr Matrosov () 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 Anatoly Ignatyev as Alexander Matrosov Pyotr Konstantinov as Ivan Konstantinovich Chumakov Konstantin Sorokin as Misha Skvortsov Shamsi Kiyomov as Khadyn Abdurakhmanov Lavrenty Masokha as Vasya Petrov Vladimir Balashov as Kostya Ilyin Oleg Zhakov as Captain Vasily Shcherbina Mikhail Kuznetsov as Captain Kolosov Anatoly Nelidov as Nikolai Gavrilovich Faina Ranevskaya as military doctorРядовой Александр Матросов (1948) Full Cast & Crew Aleksei Dikiy as Joseph Stalin (scenes removed in 1963)
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