They Fought for Their Motherland
1975 · 158 MIN · IMDB 7.7 · 3,384 VOTES · DIR. Sergey Bondarchuk
Overview
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.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,230 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:20 For all those who survived
00:08:34 Petya, let me have a smoke.
00:15:01 and a little extra. She's just something!
00:18:59 What did you get that medal for, catching crayfish?
00:23:04 Bloody hell!
00:43:01 Kolia Streltsov, before they evacuated him to the hospital
00:46:23 Hey! What's wrong with you?
00:50:46 Glasha!
00:55:07 Oh, Glasha...
01:02:24 You can go now.
01:06:46 and where's your kitchen
01:11:47 What's wrong with you? You look all gray.
01:28:58 All the boys are gone already, and we're way behind them.
01:35:11 and I'll try to do it.
01:39:19 It's bad enough as it is.
01:46:28 You and I
01:50:32 Is it something weird?
02:02:21 I warned you that it was going
02:07:07 I keep telling you that our warehouse is empty!
02:10:47 I saw one like that at an exhibition before the war.
02:15:01 Alexander, you mean?
02:20:00 We always got along just fine.
02:23:38 Let's sit down.
02:30:15 Mikhail Sholokhov
Cast & Characters
Vasiliy Shukshin
Pyotr Lopakhin
Vyacheslav Tikhonov
Nikolay Streltsov
Sergey Bondarchuk
Ivan Zvyagintsev
Georgiy Burkov
Aleksandr Kopytovskij
Yuriy Nikulin
Pvt. Nekrasov
Ivan Lapikov
Sgt. Poprischenko
Nikolay Gubenko
Lt. Goloshchyokov
Andrey Rostotskiy
Cpl. Kochetygov
Nikolay Volkov
Pvt. Nikiforov
Nikolay Shutko
Petro Lisichenko - Cook
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed1,230
Dialogue density7.8 lines / min
First line00:00:20
Final line02:30:15
Production Record
DirectorSergey Bondarchuk
LanguageRussian
IMDb votes3,384