Nov 05, 1975
151 min
Full-HD

They Fought for Their Motherland (1975)

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.

Category

War History Drama

Country

Soviet Union

Companies

Mosfilm

Vasiliy Shukshin

Pyotr Lopakhin

Vyacheslav Tikhonov

pvt. Nikolay Strel'tsov

Sergey Bondarchuk

pvt. Ivan Zvyagintsev

Georgi Burkov

pvt. Alexander Kopytovsky

Yuriy Nikulin

pvt. Nekrasov

Ivan Lapikov

sergeant Poprischenko

Nikolai Gubenko

lieutenant Goloschyokov

Andrei Rostotsky

corporal Kochetygov

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