Zoya () is a 1944 Soviet biographical war film directed by Lev Arnshtam. Margarita AligerâÂÂs poem with the same name which had been published in September 1942 was the inspiration of the film. It was entered into the 1946 Cannes Film Festival.
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 German soldiers in November 1941 near Moscow, in the village of Petrishcheva. She was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union.