One-Two, Soldiers Were Going...

One-Two, Soldiers Were Going...
One-Two, Soldiers Were Going...
Directed by	Leonid Bykov
Written by	Boris Vasilyev; Kirill Rapoport
Starring	Leonid Bykov; Vladimir Konkin
Cinematography	Volodymyr Voytenko
Music by	Georgy Dmitriyev
Production; company	Dovzhenko Film Studios
Release dates	April 15, 1977 (Soviet Union); December 11, 1977 (Poland); October 19, 1978 (Hungary);
Running time	87 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

One-Two, Soldiers Were Going... (Russian: Аты-баты, шли солдаты..., romanized: Aty-baty, shli soldaty...) is a 1977 Soviet war film directed by Leonid Bykov.

Plot[edit]

A small station Podbednya no different from many other stations of the Soviet Union. During the great Patriotic war, there were fierce battles. And now here come the relatives of those who approached the Victory, but did not live up to it.

In the movie "One-Two, Soldiers Were Going..." shows two parallel storylines. The first develops in the mid-1970s, the second — in the spring of 1944. By the end of the movie lines are closed on the battlefield, which takes place on March 18, 1944 and the memory of which honor the audience on March 18, 1974.

Cast[edit]

Leonid Bykov as Viktor Svyatkin
Vladimir Konkin as Igor Suslin
Yelena Shanina as Kima Velenstovich
Bohdan Beniuk as Krynkin
Ivan Havryliuk as Sgt Ivan Saiko, ″Baltika″
Otabek Ganiyev as Khabarbekov
Vladimir Gerasimov as Vladimir Myatnikov, "Philosopher"
Nikolai Sektimenko as Glebov
Vano Yantbelidze as Vano Koderidze
Leonid Bakshtayev as Konstantin
Yevgeniya Uralova as Anna, Suslin and Kima's daughter
Nikolai Grinko as colonel, Konstantin's commander
Mikhail Yezepov as singer Michael, Myatnikov's son
Natalya Naum as Valentina Ivanovna
Boris Khimichev as Yuri Ivanovich, Saiko's son
Yuriy Sherstnyov as Glebov's nephew
Aida Yunusova as Yunes, Khabarbekov's daughter
Yevhen Paperny as Konstantin's colleague (uncredited)

References[edit]

Тендора, Наталья (2011). Леонид Быков. Аты-баты [Leonid Bykov. Aty-baty] (in Russian). Москва: Эксмо. ISBN 978-5-699-53289-6.

External links[edit]

Aty-baty, shli soldaty... is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive
Aty-baty, shli soldaty... at IMDb

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