Attack and Retreat

Attack and Retreat
Directed by	Giuseppe De Santis Dmitri Vasilyev
Written by	Ennio De Concini Giuseppe De Santis Sergey Smirnov Augusto Frassinetti
Starring	Arthur Kennedy Zhanna Prokhorenko Raffaele Pisu Tatyana Samojlova Andrea Checchi
Music by	Armando Trovajoli
Release date	1964
Countries	Italy, USSR
Languages	Italian, Russian

Attack and Retreat (Italian: Italiani brava gente, Russian: Они шли на Восток, romanized: Oni shli na Vostok) is a Soviet-Italian war drama film directed by Giuseppe De Santis and Dmitri Vasilyev in 1964. The movie follows the steps of Italian soldiers of the Italian Army in Russia fighting on the Eastern Front on Hitler's side. Heavily based on diaries and memories of real war veterans.

Cast

• Arthur Kennedy as Ferro Maria Ferri
• Zhanna Prokhorenko as Katya
• Raffaele Pisu as Libero Gabrielli
• Tatyana Samojlova as Sonya
• Andrea Checchi as Colonel Sermonti
• Riccardo Cucciolla as Giuseppe Sanna
• Valeri Somov as Giuliani
• Peter Falk as Lieutenant Mario Salvioni
• Nino Vingelli as Amalfitano
• Lev Prygunov as Loris Bazzocchi
• Grigory Mikhaylov as Russian Partisan (as Grigorij Mikhailov)
• Erwin Knausmyuller as German colonel
• Gino Pernice as Collodi
• Boris Kozhukhov as Major
• Vincenzo Polizzi as Sicilian

External links

• Attack and Retreat at IMDb
• Boris Bondarenko (1976). Pyramide. Moscow: Soviet writer. 472 p.