The canonical combat film during the Thaw era in the USSR, and released toward it's end, The Living and The Dead topped the box office in both parts for 1964, with over 40 million people.
The film was released in two parts, due to its length.
Main Prize at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (1964).
The prototype of Izvestia's military photo correspondent Mishka Weinstein was Mikhail Bernstein, the front-line friend of Konstantin Simonov , who died in May 1942 in the Barvenkovskiy Cauldron.
Film adaptation of the first part of the novel of the same name by Konstantin Simonov.