| Zoya | |
| Director: | Lev Arnshtam |
| Starring: | Galina Vodyanitskaya |
| Music: | Dmitri Shostakovich[1] |
| Cinematography: | Aleksandr Shelenkov |
| Distributor: | Soyuzdetfilm |
| Runtime: | 95 minutes |
| Country: | Soviet Union |
| Language: | Russian |
Zoya (Russian: Зоя) is a 1944 Soviet biographical war film directed by Lev Arnshtam.[2] Margarita Aliger’s poem with the same name which had been published in September 1942 was the inspiration of the film.[1] It was entered into the 1946 Cannes Film Festival.[3]
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.