Synopsis

They Fought for Their Motherland (1975)

Oni srazhalis za rodinu (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.
Sergey Bondarchuk, Vladimir Dostal
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, Andrei Popov, Nikolay Shutko, Evgeniy Samoylov, Irina Skobtseva, Angelina Stepanova, Daniil Ilchenko, Aleksey Vanin, Nikolai Gorlov, Gennady Safronov, Boris Nikiforov, Anatoli Pereverzev, Vitaly Leonov, Mikhail Chigaryov, Stanislav Borodokin, Leonid Trutnev, Pyotr Merkuryev
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