Cinetrā
Cinetrā
Cinetrā
Они сражались за Родину (original title)
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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: Vasiliy Shukshin, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Sergei Bondarchuk, Georgi Burkov, Yuriy Nikulin, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolai Gubenko, Andrei Rostotsky, Nikolay Volkov, Mykola Shutko, Evgeniy Samoylov, Nonna Mordyukova, Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Angelina Stepanova, Irina Skobtseva, Tatyana Bozhok, Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina, Danylo Ilchenko, Aleksey Vanin, Nikolay Gorlov
Writers: Sergei Bondarchuk (Writer), Mikhail Sholokhov (Novel)
Cinematographer: Vadim Yusov
Production Designer: Feliks Yasyukevich
Editor: Yelena Mikhaylova
Composer: Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov
Costume Designer: Nadezhda Buzina
Direction team: Anatoli Chemodurov (Second Unit Director), Vladimir Dostal (First Assistant Director), S. Bushkova (Assistant Director), Viktor Prokhorov (Assistant Director), А. Николаев (Assistant Director)
Producer: Igor Lazarenko
Production: Mosfilm
