Attack and Retreat
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.
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| 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 |
| Country | Italy, USSR |
| Language | Italian, Russian |
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 on IMDb
- Boris Bondarenko (1976). Pyramide. Moscow: Soviet writer. 472 p.
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