They Fought for Their Country
| They Fought for Their Country | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Sergei Bondarchuk |
| Written by | Sergei Bondarchuk Mikhail Sholokhov |
| Starring | Vasily Shukshin Vyacheslav Tikhonov Sergei Bondarchuk Georgi Burkov Yuri Nikulin Ivan Lapikov |
| Cinematography | Vadim Yusov |
| Music by | Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov |
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Running time | 137 minutes |
| Country | Soviet Union |
| Language | Russian |
They Fought for Their Country (Russian: Они сражались за Родину) is a 1975 Soviet war movie directed by Sergei Bondarchuk[1][2] and stars Vasily Shukshin, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, and Sergei Bondarchuk. The movie is based on the eponymous novel written by Mikhail Sholokhov
Actors[change | change source]
- Vasily Shukshin as Piotr Lopakhin
- Vyacheslav Tikhonov as private Nikolay Strel'tsov
- Sergei Bondarchuk as private Ivan Zvyagintsev
- Georgi Burkov as private Alexandr Kopytovskij
- Yuri Nikulin as private Nekrasov
- Ivan Lapikov as starshina Poprischenko
- Nikolai Gubenko as Lieutenant Goloshchekov
- Andrei Rostotsky as gefreiter Kochetygov
- Nikolai Volkov as private Nikiforov
- Nikolai Shutko as cook Lisichenko
- Yevgeni Samojlov as Colonel Marchenko
- Nonna Mordyukova as Natalya Stepanovna
- Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina as Glasha
- Innokenti Smoktunovsky as Doctor
