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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
Sergei Bondarchuk
Written by
Sergei Bondarchuk
Nonna Mordyukova
Natalya Stepanovna
Vyacheslav Tikhonov
pvt. Nikolay Strel'tsov
Georgi Burkov
pvt. Alexander Kopytovsky
Yuriy Nikulin
pvt. Nekrasov
Vasiliy Shukshin
Pyotr Lopakhin
Andrei Popov
narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Yuriy Solovyov
(uncredited)
Angelina Stepanova
old Cossack woman
Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina
Glasha
Ivan Lapikov
sergeant Poprischenko
Nikolay Gorlov
Evgeniy Samoylov
Colonel Marchenko
Tatyana Bozhok
nurse
Andrei Rostotsky
corporal Kochetygov
Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy
surgeon
Igor E. Kuznetsov
Irina Skobtseva
head nurse
Pyotr Merkuryev
soldier
Igor Efimov
Pyotr Lopakhin (voice) (uncredited)
Mikhail Chigaryov
soldier
Aleksey Vanin
soldier Akim Borzykh
Mykola Shutko
cook lisichenko
Danylo Ilchenko
Luka Mikhalych
Leonid Trutnev
soldier
Anatoli Chemodurov
Natalya Gundareva
Glasha (voice) (uncredited)
Stanislav Borodokin
soldier
Vladimir Myshkin
soldier
Boris Nikiforov
captain Sumskov
Vitaliy Leonov
soldier
Aleksandr Konyashin
soldier
Khoshim Rakhimov
soldier
Yunus Yusupov
soldier
Anatoli Pereverzev
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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