She Defends the Motherland

She Defends the Motherland
Russian: Она защищает Родину
Directed by Fridrikh Ermler
Written by Aleksei Kapler
Starring
Music by Gavriil Popov
Cinematography Vladimir Rapoport
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

  1. ↑ Центр культуры «РЕКОРД» приглашает на бесплатный просмотр кино с 7 по 11 марта
  2. ↑ 20 мая
  3. ↑ Сергей Собянин пригласил горожан бесплатно посетить посвященную Дню Победы кинопрограмму сети «Москино»
  4. ↑ В Новороссийске прошла презентация культурно-просветительского проекта «Герои Кубани в летописи Великой Победы»
  5. ↑ Туфельки не износились
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