Dramatic Methods in G. N. Chukhray’s «Ballad of a Soldier»

In modern cinematography, alongside with consistent and traditional, distinct types of nonlinear drama are used. Many of these types were developed on the border line between the 1950s – 1960s, one of the most active periods of the renovation of the film language. In the history of cinematography the discovery of a number of new dramatic methods was made by film producers of the so-called author’s cinematography. G. N. Chukhray’s film «The Ballad of a Soldier» (1959) vividly shows a tendency towards a fragmentary «block» composition of the plot. And new, for that time, principles to organize action development were used. The article studies the peculiarities of the film drama of «The Ballad of a Soldier» and analyses the correlation of the plot, subject and composition in the film. At the same time in Russian contemporary art history there are very few special works devoted to the problems of the typology of the cinema drama of that period in the context of their influence on modern cinematography. It allows one to speak about the actuality of the article.