They fought for their Motherland
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$19.99
- SKU: 37376
- Availability: In Stock
- Label(s): Ruscico , MosFilm
- Subtitles: French , Spanish , Italian , English
- Languages: Russian, English, French
- Format: 4:3 , Color
- Soundformat: Dolby Digital 5.1 , Mono
- Genre(s): Drama , World War II
- Year of release: 2005 (1975)
- Recording length: 137 min.
- 2 DVD Set
- Camera Вадим Юсов
- Cast Юрий Никулин, Нонна Мордюкова, Вячеслав Тихонов, Георгий Бурков, Василий Шукшин, Иннокентий Смоктуновский, Сергей Бондарчук, Лидия Федосеева-Шукшина, Михаил Чигарев, Ангелина Степанова, Николай Губенко, Виталий Леонов
- Director Сергей Бондарчук, Владимир Досталь
- Script Сергей Бондарчук
Based on the novel by M.A. Sholokhov.July 1942. The army is retreating. A group of exhausted soldiers, all that’s left of their regiment, are defending a plot of land. At times they feel like there is no war. Wide tank tracks on the road, and all around are drooping, wilted grasses, dimly glistening salt marshes and a bluish flickering haze over distant mounds…In that absurd clash between the warmly breathing earth and the inhuman war machine lies a powerful Biblical generalization, the metaphor of confrontation of eternal life and dark, evil forces