The Boy from Stalingrad
movie
View on VideBits →If J.M. Barrie had had a hand in Tarkovsky's IVAN'S CHILDHOOD, it might like something like this bizarre boys' adventure confection. Surprised by the advancing German Army while gathering wheat outside their village, a spunky band of Russian adolescents employs a combination of wits and heroic self-sacrifice to defeat a Nazi battalion, blow up a tank, and save the people of Stalingrad from imminent destruction. A rarely-seen entry in Hollywoood's brief wartime spate of pro-Soviet propaganda films, THE BOY FROM STALINGRAD stars Serbian-American child actor Bobby Samarzich, who went on to found one of Southern California's greatest tamburitza bands.
Cast & crew
Bobby Samarzich · Conrad Binyon · Donald Mayo · Erik Rolf · John Wengraf · Mary Lou Harrington · Scotty Beckett · Steven Muller · Wilhelm von Brincken · Sidney Salkow · Ferdinand Reyher