Song of Russia (1944)
Flaming Love Story of an American
107 min
American conductor John Meredith and his manager, Hank Higgins, go to Russia shortly before the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. Meredith falls in love with beautiful Soviet pianist Nadya Stepanova while they travel throughout the country on a 40-city tour. Along the way, they see happy, healthy, smiling, free Soviet citizens, blissfully living the Communist dream. This bliss is destroyed by the German invasion.
- Release date
- February 10, 1944
- Country of origin
- United States
- Music
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Cast
- Robert Taylor as John Meredith
- Susan Peters as Nadya Stepanova
- John Hodiak as Boris
- Robert Benchley as Hank Higgins
- Felix Bressart as Petrov
- Michael Chekhov as Stepanov
- Darryl Hickman as Peter
- Jacqueline White as Anna
- Patricia Prest as Stasha
- Joan Lorring as Sonia
Crew
- Gregory Ratoff · Director
- Paul Jarrico · Writer
- Richard Collins · Writer
- Leo Mittler · Writer
- Victor Trivas · Writer
- Joe Pasternak · Producer
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky · Composer
- Harry Stradling Sr. · Cinematographer
- George Hively · Editor