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Zoya
Film poster
Directed by	Lev Arnshtam
Written by	Lev Arnshtam Boris Chirskov
Starring	Galina Vodyanitskaya
Cinematography	Aleksandr Shelenkov
Music by	Dmitri Shostakovich
Distributed by	Soyuzdetfilm
Release date	1944 (1944)
Running time	95 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

Zoya (Russian: Зоя) 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

References※

External links※

• Zoya at AllMovie
• Zoya at IMDb

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