Баллада о солдате

I would have to say that Баллада о солдате ( Ballad of a Soldier) is my favorite movie so far in class. I also thought it was one of the sadder of the movies also. At the beginning of the movie we meet a young man Alyosha Skvortsov scared and running from a group of tanks. He falls into a fox hole and ends up finding a gun and blowing up 2 German tanks. In the midst of this his general says he is going to nominate him for a medal. Alyosha asks if instead of the medal he can have time to go home and fix a leaking roof for his mother. The General in turn gives him 6 days get home fix the roof and come back. On his trip home we find that Alyosha is a very honorable man.
The first nice thing we see him do is help a wounded solder who is missing a leg carry his luggage and get home to his wife. he then hops a military cargo train where he bribes a guard to ride the train part of the way home. On this train he meets a young girl Shura who he falls in love with. on this trip he makes many stops and helps a lot of people along with Shura. He eventually parts with Shura at a train station and he regrets leaving her. All the rest of the trip he dreams of her. He gets home and only gets to spend a short amount of time with his mother, because he had helped and stopped so many times along the way. It is a sad movie because we never really find out what happens to Alyosha or Shura. I assume he was probably killed. I really enjoyed this movie and I hope every one else did as much as I did.