Directed by:
Sergei Fyodorovich BondarchukCinematography:
Vadim YusovComposer:
Vyacheslav OvchinnikovPlots(1)
July 1942. The army is retreating. A group of exhausted soldiers, all that's left of their regiment, are defending a plot of land. At times they feel like there is no war. Wide tank tracks on the road, and all around are drooping, wilted grasses, dimly glistening salt marshes and a bluish flickering haze over distant mounds...In that absurd clash between the warmly breathing earth and the inhuman war machine lies a powerful Biblical generalization, the metaphor of confrontation of eternal life and dark, evil forces... (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
![Vasiliy Shukshin](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/102/642/102642924_6569e7.jpg)
Vasiliy Shukshin
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Liberation (1971)
The Commissar (1967)
Liberation: The Fire Bulge (1970)
![Vjačeslav Tichonov](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/270/270956_0492ee.jpg)
Vjačeslav Tichonov
Soviet Union
Best movies:
War and Peace (1965)
War and Peace: Part III (1967)
War and Peace: Part IV (1967)
![Sergei Fyodorovich Bondarchuk](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/270/270958_34f608.jpg)
Sergei Fyodorovich Bondarchuk
Soviet Union
Best movies:
War and Peace (1965)
Father Sergius (1978)
War and Peace: Part III (1967)
![Jurij Nikulin](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/371/371137_67cc3e.jpg)
Jurij Nikulin
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Andrei Rublev (1966)
Dvadtsat dney bez voyny (1976)
The Scarecrow (1983)
![Yevgeniy Samoylov](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/157/910/157910836_efe0f6.jpg)
Yevgeniy Samoylov
Russian Empire
Best movies:
Waterloo (1970)
They Fought for Their Country (1975)
Boris Godunov (1986)
![Nonna Mordyukova](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/269/269497_0fcbe7.jpg)
Nonna Mordyukova
Soviet Union
Best movies:
War and Peace (1965)
Shine, Shine, My Star (1969)
War and Peace: Part II (1966)
![Lidiya Fedoseeva-Shukshina](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/158/597/158597509_0c3379.jpg)
Lidiya Fedoseeva-Shukshina
Soviet Union
Best movies:
12 stulyev (1977) (series)
Love and Lies (1980)
They Fought for Their Country (1975)
![Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/386/386759_c5e6f8.jpg)
Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Hamlet (1964)
Crime and Punishment (1970)
The Legend of Till Ullenspiegel (1976)
![Nikolai Gubenko](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/161/968/161968573_b3d741.jpg)
Nikolai Gubenko
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Prishyol soldat s fronta (1971)
They Fought for Their Country (1975)
Proshu slova (1975)
![Georgiy Burkov](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/499/499096_3e083d.jpg)
Georgiy Burkov
Soviet Union
Best movies:
The Cat Who Walked by Herself (1988)
Father Sergius (1978)
Office Romance (1977)
![Irina Skobtseva](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/153/626/153626332_e60349.jpg)
Irina Skobtseva
Soviet Union
Best movies:
War and Peace (1965)
Father Sergius (1978)
Waterloo (1970)
Nikolay Shutko
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Duma o Kovpake: Karpaty, Karpaty... (1976)
They Fought for Their Country (1975)
Collapse (1990)
Daniil Ilchenko
Russian Empire
Best movies:
Quiet Flows the Don (1957)
And Quiet Flows the Don II (1958)
They Fought for Their Country (1975)
Andrej Rostockij
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Trees Grow on the Stones Too (1985)
They Fought for Their Country (1975)
Breakthrough (1986)
![Taťjana Božok](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/166/079/166079249_c71df1.jpg)
Taťjana Božok
Soviet Union
Best movies:
They Fought for Their Country (1975)
Gostya iz budushchego (1984) (series)
Front Beyond the Front Line (1977)
![Mikhail Chigaryov](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/167/023/167023491_d33d46.jpg)
Mikhail Chigaryov
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Siberiade (1979)
They Fought for Their Country (1975)
Slave of Love (1976)
![Борис Никифоров](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/167/089/167089834_38de47.jpg)
Борис Никифоров
Soviet Union
Best movies:
They Fought for Their Country (1975)
Aktsiya (1987)