They Fought for Their Motherland
Они сражались за Родину
They Fought for Their Motherland On Soap2Day. 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.
- Genre: War, History, Drama
- Country: Soviet Union
- Director: Sergey Bondarchuk
- Cast: Vasiliy Shukshin, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Sergey Bondarchuk, Yuriy Nikulin, Georgi Burkov, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolai Gubenko, Nikolay Volkov, Nonna Mordyukova, Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina, Andrei Rostotsky, Tatyana Bozhok, Mykola Shutko, Andrei Popov, Evgeniy Samoylov, Irina Skobtseva, Angelina Stepanova, Danylo Ilchenko, Aleksey Vanin, Gennady Safronov,