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They Fought for Their Country

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'They Fought for Their Country' is a 1975 Soviet war film based on the eponymous novel written by Mikhail Sholokhov and 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.Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

Cast



* Vasily Shukshin as Piotr Lopakhin

* Vyacheslav Tikhonov as private Nikolay Strel'tsov

* Sergei Bondarchuk as private Ivan Zvyagintsev

* Georgi Burkov as private Alexandr Kopytovskij

* Yuri Nikulin as private Nekrasov

* Ivan Lapikov as starshina Poprischenko

* Nikolai Gubenko as Lieutenant Goloshchekov

* Andrei Rostotsky as gefreiter Kochetygov

* Nikolai Volkov as private Nikiforov

* Nikolai Shutko as cook Lisichenko

* Yevgeni Samojlov as Colonel Marchenko

* Nonna Mordyukova as Natalya Stepanovna

* Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina as Glasha

* Innokenti Smoktunovsky as Doctor

See also



* List of submissions to the 49th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

* List of Soviet submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

References




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