Plot
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.
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Cast
Vasiliy Shukshin
Pyotr Lopakhin
Vyacheslav Tikhonov
pvt. Nikolay Strel'tsov
Sergei Bondarchuk
pvt. Ivan Zvyagintsev
Georgi Burkov
pvt. Alexander Kopytovsky
Yuriy Nikulin
pvt. Nekrasov
Ivan Lapikov
sergeant Poprischenko
Nikolai Gubenko
lieutenant Goloschyokov
Andrei Rostotsky
corporal Kochetygov
Nikolay Volkov
pvt. Nikiforov
Mykola Shutko
cook lisichenko
Evgeniy Samoylov
Colonel Marchenko
Nonna Mordyukova
Natalya Stepanovna
Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy
surgeon
Angelina Stepanova
old Cossack woman
Irina Skobtseva
head nurse
Tatyana Bozhok
nurse
Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina
Glasha
Danylo Ilchenko
Luka Mikhalych
Aleksey Vanin
soldier Akim Borzykh
Nikolay Gorlov
Gennady Safronov
the chairman
Boris Nikiforov
captain Sumskov
Vitaliy Leonov
soldier
Aleksandr Konyashin
soldier
Lev Pavlov
soldier
Leonid Trutnev
soldier
Mikhail Chigaryov
soldier
Anatoli Pereverzev
soldier
Pyotr Merkuryev
soldier
Stanislav Borodokin
soldier
V. Kranchev
soldier
Yunus Yusupov
soldier
A. Kolesnikov
soldier
Khoshim Rakhimov
soldier
V. Nabatov
soldier
Gennadi Nenashev
soldier
Vladimir Myshkin
soldier
Yermakhmad Aralev
soldier
V. Alekseev
soldier
Nikolay Petrenko
Igor E. Kuznetsov
Viktor Volkov
E. Primak
M. Kazmin
Valentin Sukharev
Kolya Yefremov
Anvar Zaripov
(uncredited)
Yuri Kazavchinsky
(uncredited)
Yuriy Solovyov
(uncredited)
Igor Efimov
Pyotr Lopakhin (voice) (uncredited)
Natalya Gundareva
Glasha (voice) (uncredited)
Andrei Popov
narrator (voice) (uncredited)
