Ballad of Siberia

Ballad of Siberia
Directed by	Ivan Pyryev
Written by	Ivan Pyryev (story) Evgeniy Pomeshchikov Nikolai Rozhkov
Starring	Vladimir Druzhnikov Marina Ladynina Vladimir Zeldin Vera Vasilyeva Boris Andreyev
Music by	Nikolai Kryukov
Cinematography	Valentin Pavlov
Edited by	Anna Kulganek
Production company	Mosfilm
Release date	1948
Running time	114 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

The Ballad of Siberia (in Russian: Сказание о земле Сибирской, translit. Skazanie o zemle sibirskoy), produced by Mosfilm and released in 1948, was the Soviet Union's second color film (after The Stone Flower). It was directed by Ivan Pyryev and starred Vladimir Druzhnikov and Marina Ladynina.

It is a Soviet style musical movie, full of songs, such as "The Wanderer", describing the development of Siberia after World War II.

Pianist Andrei Balashov (Vladimir Druzhnikov) after being wounded at the front during the Great Patriotic War loses the opportunity to earnestly pursue music due to a hand injury. Without saying goodbye to his friends and his beloved Natasha (Marina Ladynina), he goes to Siberia. He works on the construction of a plant, and in the evenings sings in a teahouse. By chance, weather conditions force the plane with Andrey's friends, Boris Olenich (Vladimir Zeldin) and Natasha, who are flying to a competition abroad, to land at the airport near the building of the plant. Andrey meets them and it changes his life. He travels to the Arctic and inspired by the heroic labor of the builders to write a symphonic oratorio "Ballad of Siberia", which receives universal recognition.

It is a musical movie, full of songs, old and new.

This film was so successful that a second color musical film, Cossacks of the Kuban was made two years later by the same director and cast.