She Defends the Motherland
| She Defends the Motherland | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Fridrikh Ermler |
| Written by | Aleksei Kapler |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Vladimir Rapoport |
| Music by | Gavriil Popov |
| Country | Soviet Union |
She Defends the Motherland, (Russian: Она защищает Родину) is a 1943[1] Soviet drama film starring Vera Maretskaya and directed by Fridrikh Ermler.[2][3][4][5] It was distributed in the United States by Artkino Pictures as No Greater Love, also in 1943, with a dubbed-English soundtrack.
Plot
Praskovya Lukyanova, a rural villager in the USSR, first loses her husband in battle at the outbreak of WWII, and then her only, small son, who is run over deliberately by a Nazi tank driven by a soldier wearing a eyepatch, as the Germans take over the village. Thus convicted of the need to fight back, she organizes her fellow villagers in the forest, where they have taken refuge, into a guerilla unit which first thwarts, then overcomes, the fascist invaders.
Starring
- Vera Maretskaya as Praskovya Lukyanova
- Nikolay Bogolyubov as Ivan Lukyanov (as N. Bogolyubov)
- Lidiya Smirnova as Fenya (as L. Smirnova)
- Pyotr Aleynikov as Senya (as P. Alenikov)
- Ivan Pelttser as Stepan Orlov (as I. Peltser)
- Inna Fyodorova as Orlova (as I. Fyodorovna)
- Aleksandr Violinov as Nikolai Nikolayevich (as A. Violinov)
- ? as General Von Falk
- ? as The One-Eyed German Tankist
References
- ^ Центр культуры «РЕКОРД» приглашает на бесплатный просмотр кино с 7 по 11 марта
- ^ 20 мая
- ^ Сергей Собянин пригласил горожан бесплатно посетить посвященную Дню Победы кинопрограмму сети «Москино»
- ^ В Новороссийске прошла презентация культурно-просветительского проекта «Герои Кубани в летописи Великой Победы»
- ^ Туфельки не износились
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