They Fought for Their Motherland [86382] Released: 1975-11-05 Genres: War, History, Drama Revenue: unknown Cast: 42 Popularity: 0.8789 Links: : Homepage, IMDB, TMDB Synopsis : 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. Vasiliy ShukshinVyacheslav TikhonoSergey BondarchukYuriy NikulinGeorgi BurkovIvan LapikovNikolai GubenkoNikolay VolkovNonna MordyukovaInnokentiy SmoktunLidiya Fedoseyeva-Andrei RostotskyTatyana BozhokMykola ShutkoAndrei PopovEvgeniy SamoylovIrina SkobtsevaAngelina StepanovaDanylo IlchenkoAleksey VaninGennady SafronovBoris NikiforovAnatoli PereverzevVitaliy LeonovMikhail ChigaryovStanislav BorodokiLeonid TrutnevPyotr MerkuryevYermakhmad AralevAleksandr KonyashiIgor E. KuznetsovVladimir MyshkinGennadi NenashevLev PavlovNikolay PetrenkoKhoshim RakhimovViktor VolkovKolya YefremovYunus YusupovIgor EfimovNatalya GundarevaNikolay Gorlov