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