She Defends the Motherland explained
She Defends the Motherland, (Russian: Она защищает Родину) is a 1943[1] Soviet World War II 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 young 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
Notes and References
- http://www.giport.ru/news_city/113190 Центр культуры «РЕКОРД» приглашает на бесплатный просмотр кино с 7 по 11 марта
- http://rt-online.ru/20-maya-3/ 20 мая
- http://vm.ru/news/491291.html Сергей Собянин пригласил горожан бесплатно посетить посвященную Дню Победы кинопрограмму сети «Москино»
- http://nrnews.ru/news/kultura/97661-v-novorossiyske-proshla-prezentaciya-kulturno-prosvetitelskogo-proekta-geroi-kubani-v-letopisi-velikoy-pobedy.html В Новороссийске прошла презентация культурно-просветительского проекта «Герои Кубани в летописи Великой Победы»
- https://rg.ru/2017/05/12/reg-szfo/volshebnoj-kinoskazke-zolushka-ispolnilos-70-let.html Туфельки не износились
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036236/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm Она защищает Родину (1943) Full Cast & Crew
