Son of the Regiment
6.4
During the war years, russian soldiers pick up an orphaned boy. He refuses to go to the rear and becomes a scout, and then remains with the artillery battery. When the calculation of the battery dies in battle with the German tanks that have broken through, Vanya is sent to the Suvorov School, whose students participate in a military parade on Red Square.
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Cast
23 people
Yuri Yankin
Vanya Solntsev
Aleksandr Morozov
Dmitry Yenakiyev
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Riding a Dolphin
Anatoly Lepin
Valentin Kataev
Vasily Pronin
Yuri Vasilchikov
Grigory Pluzhnik
Vasily Bidenko
Also in
The Goalkeeper
Sailors
Grair Garibyan
Nikolai Parfyonov
Kuzma Gorbunov
Known for
Afonya
Magicians
Nikolay Yakhontov
Yegorov
Vladimir Sinev
Voznesensky
Grigori Pluzhnik
Bidenko
Vasily Pronin Director · Valentin Kataev Writer Anatoliy Lepin Composer
United States release April 17, 1948 · Produced in Russia · Original title Сын полка
Production
Soyuzdetfilm
Production
Russia
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Languages
Original title
Сын полка
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
Russian
Release dates
Russia · October 16, 1946
Theatrical
United States · April 17, 1948
Belgium
March 5, 1948 · Brussels
Finland
November 21, 1947
France
November 19, 1947
Hungary
March 27, 1947
XC
February 21, 1947 · Theatrical
January 30, 1953 · Theatrical · Re-release (with Czech dubbing)
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