She Defends the Motherland

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.

She Defends the Motherland
Russian: Она защищает Родину
Directed byFridrikh Ermler
Written byAleksei Kapler
Starring
Music byGavriil Popov
CinematographyVladimir Rapoport
CountrySoviet Union

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 an 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)[6]
  • ? as General Von Falk
  • ? as The One-Eyed German Tankist
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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
  6. Она защищает Родину (1943) Full Cast & Crew


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