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They Fought for Their Motherland

11/05/1975

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2hrs 38min

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War

,History

,Drama

STORY

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.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Vasiliy Shukshin
  • Vyacheslav Tikhonov
  • Sergey Bondarchuk
  • Yuriy Nikulin
  • Georgi Burkov

    Director

  • Sergey Bondarchuk

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Mosfilm

    Production Countries

  • Soviet Union

LANGUAGES

  • Russian

Cast

Vasiliy Shukshin

Piotr Lopakhin

Vyacheslav Tikhonov

pvt. Nikolay Strel'tsov

Yuriy Nikulin

pvt. Nekrasov

Georgi Burkov

pvt. Alexander Kopytovsky

Ivan Lapikov

sergeant Poprischenko

Nikolay Volkov

pvt. Nikiforov

Nonna Mordyukova

Natalya Stepanovna

Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy

surgeon

Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina

Glasha

Andrei Rostotsky

corporal Kochetygov

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