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Plot. American orchestra conductor John Meredith (Robert Taylor) and his manager, Hank Higgins (Robert Benchley), travel to the Soviet Union shortly before the country is invaded by Germany. Meredith falls in love with beautiful Soviet pianist Nadya Stepanova (Susan Peters) while they tour the country on a 40-city tour.
Song of Russia: Directed by Gregory Ratoff, Laslo Benedek. With Robert Taylor, Susan Peters, John Hodiak, Robert Benchley. Propaganda film from WW2, designed to raise the awareness of the American public regarding USSR's fight against Nazi Germany.
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- Drama, Music, Romance
- Gregory Ratoff, Laslo Benedek
- 1944-02
An American symphonic conductor (Robert Taylor) trapped in Russia during World War II helps with the resistance. In 1943, the U.S. was at war, and Hollywood was doing its bit for the war effort, turning out patriotic films and sending (albeit reluctantly) its top male stars off to fight.
- Gregory Ratoff
- Robert Taylor
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.
In June 1941, famed American symphony conductor John Meredith (Robert Taylor) is touring Soviet Russia with his manager Hank (Robert Benchley) when they go to a small rural town where famed Russian composer Tchaikovsky was born.
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Song of Russia is a 1944 American war film made and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The picture was credited as being directed by Gregory Ratoff, though Ratoff collapsed near the end of the five-month production, and was replaced by László Benedek, who completed principal photography; the credited screenwriters were Paul Jarrico and ...
