What is They Fought for Their Country?
{{italictitle}} {{Infobox film | name = They Fought for Their Country | image = | caption = | director = [[Sergei Bondarchuk]] | producer = | writer = Sergei Bondarchuk<br>[[Mikhail Sholokhov]] | starring = [[Vasily Shukshin]]<br>[[Vyacheslav Tikhonov]]<br>[[Sergei Bondarchuk]]<br>[[Georgi Burkov]]<br>[[Yuri Nikulin]]<br>[[Ivan Lapikov]] | music = [[Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov]] | cinematography = [[Vadim Yusov]] | editing = | distributor = | released = {{film date|1975|5|22|df=yes}} | runtime = 137 minutes | country = Soviet Union | language = Russian }} '''''They Fought for Their Country''''' ({{lang-ru|Они сражались за Родину}}) is a 1975 Soviet war movie directed by Sergei Bondarchuk<ref>[https://saratov.mk.ru/article/2013/12/20/962936-stalingrad-na-eksport.html «Сталинград» на экспорт]</ref><ref>[https://www.kino-teatr.ru/kino/movie/sov/4753/annot/ ОНИ СРАЖАЛИСЬ ЗА РОДИНУ (1975)]</ref> and stars [[Vasily Shukshin]], [[Vyacheslav Tikhonov]], and [[Sergei Bondarchuk]]. The movie is based on the eponymous novel written by Mikhail Sholokhov ==Actors== * [[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 == References == {{reflist}} ==Other websites== * {{IMDb title|tt0073488|They Fought for Their Country}} {{movie-stub}} [[Category:1975 war movies]] [[Category:1975 drama movies]] [[Category:Soviet war movies]] [[Category:Soviet drama movies]] [[C