Sergey BONDARCHUK
Сергей БОНДАРЧУК
Sergueï BONDARTCHOUK
USSR, 1975, 160mn 
Colour, fiction
They fought for their country
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Они сражались за Родину

 

 Ils ont combattu pour la patrie

 Oni srazhalis za Rodinu

Other titles : They fought for the motherland
 
Directed by : Sergey BONDARCHUK (Сергей БОНДАРЧУК)
Writing credits : Sergey BONDARCHUK (Сергей БОНДАРЧУК)
 
Cast
Sergey BONDARCHUK (Сергей БОНДАРЧУК) ...Ivan Zvyagintsev
Tatyana BOZHOK (Татьяна БОЖОК)
Georgi BURKOV (Георгий БУРКОВ) ...Aleksandr Kopytovsky
Lidia FEDOSEYEVA-SHUKSHINA (Лидия ФЕДОСЕЕВА-ШУКШИНА) ...Glikerya
Nikolay GUBENKO (Николай ГУБЕНКО) ...Goloshchokov
Ivan LAPIKOV (Иван ЛАПИКОВ) ...Poprishchenko
Nonna MORDYUKOVA (Нонна МОРДЮКОВА) ...Natalya Stepanovna
Yuri NIKULIN (Юрий НИКУЛИН) ...Nekrasov
Anatoli PEREVERZEV (Анатолий ПЕРЕВЕРЗЕВ)
Yevgeni SAMOILOV (Евгений САМОЙЛОВ) ...Marchenko
Vasili SHUKSHIN (Василий ШУКШИН) ...Pyotr Lopakhin
Irina SKOBTSEVA (Ирина СКОБЦЕВА) ...Assistante du docteur
Innokenti SMOKTUNOVSKY (Иннокентий СМОКТУНОВСКИЙ) ...surgeon
Vyacheslav TIKHONOV (Вячеслав ТИХОНОВ) ...Nikolay Streltsov
Aleksey VANIN (Алексей ВАНИН) ...Akim Borzykh
 
Cinematography : Vadim YUSOV (Вадим ЮСОВ)
Production design : Felix YASYUKEVICH (Феликс ЯСЮКЕВИЧ)
Music : Vyacheslav OVCHINNIKOV (Вячеслав ОВЧИННИКОВ)
Sound : Yuri MIKHAILOV (Юрий МИХАЙЛОВ)
Editing : Yelena MISHAILOVA (Елена МИХАЙЛОВА)
Production : Mosfilm
Spectators : 40,6 million spectators in the USSR
Release date in Russia : 26/05/1975
 
Site : IMDb
Awards :
 Nominated, Cannes Film Festival, 1975
Special Prize, International Film Festival, Karlovy Vary,1976
National Prize of Russia, 1977
Prize Brothers Vasilyev for Vadim Yusov (cinematography), 1977
DVD with subtitles
Editor : Ruscico
Plot synopsis
Adaptation of M. Sholokhov’s novel of the same name. The film tells us about several days of tough fights, when a small group of brave men standed to death under continues bombings and tank attacks. During the short breaks they talk about the War and its lessons, recollect the peaceful life. The tragic tention of the fight is changed by the sceens full of humour.
Source : www.mosfilm.ru
 
Commentaries and bibliography
RUSSIA BEYOND : Cinq films soviétiques qui ont montré la Seconde Guerre mondiale sous un jour nouveau, Valeria PAÏKOVA, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2021
RUSSIA BEYOND : Les dix meilleurs films de guerre russes, Boris EGOROV, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2020
RUSSIA BEYOND: Les dix meileurs films russes sur la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Ekaterina SINELCHTCHIKOVA, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2020
RUSSIA BEYOND: Loin des clichés: douze films criants de vérité sur le front de l’Est durant la guerre, Boris EGOROV, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2020
 
Selected in the following festivals :
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2020
- Festival ''Cinema and literature'', Gatchina (Russia), 2019
- Russian film festival in Sweden 'KinoRiurik', Stockholm (Sweden), 2017
- Russian Resurrection Film Festival, Different cities (Australia), 2015
- Les 90 ans des Studios Mosfilm à la Filmothèque du Quartier Latin, Paris (France), 2014
- Festival des Films de Russie et d'Ailleurs, Geneva - Lausanne (Switzerland), 2014
- Semaine des films russes à Bacongo, Brazzaville (Republic of the Congo), 2012
- Russian Resurrection Film Festival, Different cities (Australia), 2010
- International Film Festival "Love is Folly", Varna (Bulgaria), 2010
- Honfleur Russian Film Festival, Honfleur (France), 2010
- Saint Petersburg International Cine-Forum, St Petersburg (Russia), 2010
- Film Festival of CIS countries, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia "Kinoshock", Anapa (Russia), 2005
- Festival de Cannes, Cannes (France), 1975
Photos and videos
 



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