They Fought For Their Motherland (2DVD)

Based on the novel by M.A. Sholokhov.
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.

Awards: Prize of the Union of the Anti-Fascist Fighters of Czechoslovakia at the 20th IFF in Karlovy Vary, 1976 / Award for Best Director to S. Bondarchuk and Award for Best Performance of 27 male roles of soldiers at the 14th IFF in Panama, 1976 / The Vassiliev Brothers State Prize of the RSFSR to director S. Bondarchuk and cinematographer V. Yusov, 1977 / Leninist Komsomol Prize to composer V. Ovchinnikov, 1977

Special features: interview with professor A. Ushakov, filmographies, photo album

Title: THEY FOUGHT FOR THEIR MOTHERLAND (2DVD)
Collection: War
Studio: Mosfilm
Year of release: 1975
Genre: war drama
Director: S. Bondarchuk, V. Dostal
Script: S. Bondarchuk
Camera: V. Yusov
Cast: V. Leonov, M. Chigarev, V. Shukshin, S. Bondarchuk, G. Burkov, N. Gubenko, V. Tikhonov, N. Mordyukova, Yu. Nikulin, A. Pereverzev, A. Rostotsky, Ye. Samoilov, I. Lapikov, T. Bozhok, L. Fedoseyeva-Shukshina, I. Skobtseva, I. Smoktunovsky, A.Stepanova, N. Volkov Jr., A. Vanin

Running time: 137

Color Format System Sound Subtitles Zone
Colored 4:3 NTSC PAL MONO: Russian
Dolby Digital 5.1: Russian, English (Dubbed), French (Dubbed)
Russian, English, French, Spanish, Italian, German