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They Fought for Their Motherland is a film of genre Drama directed by Serge Bondartchouk released in USA on 1 november 1975 with Vasily Shukshin
They Fought for Their Motherland (1975)
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Add to a movie listThey Fought for Their Country (Russian: Они сражались за Родину, translit. Oni srazhalis' za Rodinu) is a 1975 Soviet war film directed by Sergei Bondarchuk. It was entered into the 1975 Cannes Film Festival. The film is the story of a Soviet platoon fighting a rearguard action during the German drive on Stalingrad. The film was selected as the Soviet entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 49th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
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En juillet 1942, devant l'offensive allemande, le 38e régiment d'artillerie se replie vers Stalingrad. Épuisés par une marche de trente kilomètres faite dans la matinée, la troupe arrive dans un petit village situé sur la rive droite du Don. Elle s'y arrête et les soldats en profitent pour se refaire, boire, manger, fumer, discuter, se confier, dormir, se baigner, réparer du matériel, aller à la pêche aux écrevisses,... et pour Pétia c'est aussi découvrir la gent féminine locale et au passage encaisser les critiques très sévères d'une vieille paysanne qui les prend pour de lâches fuyards.Actors
Vasily Shukshin
(Piotr Lopakhin)
Viatcheslav Tikhonov
(pvt. Nikolay Strel'tsov)
Serge Bondartchouk
(pvt. Ivan Zvyagintsev)
Georgi Burkov
(pvt. Alexander Kopytovsky)
Yuri Nikulin
(pvt. Nekrasov)
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