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They Fought for Their Motherland
1975, Nov 05
2h 31m
In July 1942, in the Second World War, the rearguard of the Russian army protects the bridgehead of the Don River against the German army while the retreating Russian troops cross the bridge. While they move back to the Russian territory through the countryside, the soldiers show their companionship, sentiments, fears and heroism to defend their motherland.
Directed by
Sergey Bondarchuk
Written by
Sergey Bondarchuk
Yuriy Nikulin
pvt. Nekrasov
Vyacheslav Tikhonov
pvt. Nikolay Strel'tsov
Vasiliy Shukshin
Pyotr Lopakhin
Georgi Burkov
pvt. Alexander Kopytovsky
Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy
surgeon
Ivan Lapikov
sergeant Poprischenko
Igor Efimov
Pyotr Lopakhin (voice) (uncredited)
Nonna Mordyukova
Natalya Stepanovna
Nikolay Gorlov
Tatyana Bozhok
nurse
Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina
Glasha
Danylo Ilchenko
Luka Mikhalych
Evgeniy Samoylov
Colonel Marchenko
Aleksey Vanin
soldier Akim Borzykh
Stanislav Borodokin
soldier
Anatoli Chemodurov
Angelina Stepanova
old Cossack woman
Pyotr Merkuryev
soldier
Irina Skobtseva
head nurse
Mikhail Chigaryov
soldier
Andrei Popov
narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Andrei Rostotsky
corporal Kochetygov
Yuriy Solovyov
(uncredited)
Yunus Yusupov
soldier
Anatoli Pereverzev
soldier
Natalya Gundareva
Glasha (voice) (uncredited)
Boris Nikiforov
captain Sumskov
Khoshim Rakhimov
soldier
Mykola Shutko
cook lisichenko
Aleksandr Konyashin
soldier
Vladimir Myshkin
soldier
Vitaliy Leonov
soldier
Igor E. Kuznetsov
Leonid Trutnev
soldier
Gennady Safronov
the chairman
Nikolay Volkov
pvt. Nikiforov
Lev Pavlov
soldier
V. Kranchev
soldier
A. Kolesnikov
soldier
V. Nabatov
soldier
Gennadi Nenashev
soldier
Yermakhmad Aralev
soldier
V. Alekseev
soldier
Nikolay Petrenko
Viktor Volkov
E. Primak
M. Kazmin
Valentin Sukharev
Kolya Yefremov
Anvar Zaripov
(uncredited)
Yuri Kazavchinsky
(uncredited)
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