Overview - They Fought for Their Motherland

Overview

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

• Name: Vasiliy Shukshin

  Character: Piotr Lopakhin

  Popularity: 0.2261

  

• Name: Vyacheslav Tikhonov

  Character: pvt. Nikolay Strel'tsov

  Popularity: 0.3918

  

• Name: Sergey Bondarchuk

  Character: pvt. Ivan Zvyagintsev

  Popularity: 0.4038

  

• Name: Yuriy Nikulin

  Character: pvt. Nekrasov

  Popularity: 0.5465

  

• Name: Georgi Burkov

  Character: pvt. Alexander Kopytovsky

  Popularity: 0.2351

  

• Name: Ivan Lapikov

  Character: sergeant Poprischenko

  Popularity: 0.2563

  

• Name: Nikolai Gubenko

  Character: lieutenant Goloschyokov

  Popularity: 0.2046

  

• Name: Nikolay Volkov

  Character: pvt. Nikiforov

  Popularity: 0.0922