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    They Fought for Their Country 1975 POSTER

    They Fought for Their Country

    1975

    Russian

    7.7

    ♡ 7

    86%

    86%

    1940s

    Action

    based on novel or book

    Drama

    russian soldier

    stalingrad

    War

    world war ii

    Sergey Bondarchuk Sergey Bondarchuk Director Pyotr Merkurev Pyotr Merkurev as (as P. Merkuryev) Natalya Gundareva Natalya Gundareva as Glikeriya Yuriy Nikulin Yuriy Nikulin as Nekrasov Vyacheslav Tikhonov Vyacheslav Tikhonov as Nikolay Streltsov
    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.
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