Movielogr
They Fought for Their Motherland (1975)
Directed by Sergey Bondarchuk
Overview
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.
Length 158 minutes
Actors
Vasiliy Shukshin | Vyacheslav Tikhonov | Sergey Bondarchuk | Yuriy Nikulin | Georgi Burkov | Ivan Lapikov | Nikolai Gubenko | Nikolay Volkov | Nonna Mordyukova | Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy | Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina | Andrei Rostotsky | Tatyana Bozhok | Nikolai Shutko | Andrei Popov | Evgeniy Samoylov | Irina Skobtseva | Angelina Stepanova | Daniil Ilchenko | Aleksey Vanin | Gennady Safronov | Boris Nikiforov | Anatoli Pereverzev | Vitaly Leonov | Mikhail Chigaryov | Stanislav Borodokin | Leonid Trutnev | Pyotr Merkuryev | Yermakhmad Aralev | Aleksandr Konyashin | Igor E. Kuznetsov | Vladimir Myshkin | Gennadi Nenashev | Lev Pavlov | Nikolay Petrenko | Khoshim Rakhimov | Viktor Volkov | Kolya Yefremov | Yunus Yusupov | Igor Efimov | Natalya Gundareva | Nikolay Gorlov