Sergei Bondarchuk’s movie «They Fought for Their Country», based on the novel of the same name by Mikhail Sholokhov, has repeatedly been called the best movie about the war. At a film festival in Panama, the feed received awards for directing and the best performances in 27 (!) male roles. You can watch online this undoubtedly harrowing, like war itself, and multifaceted, like life itself, historical drama, in which Vasily Shukshin, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Sergei Bondarchuk, Georgy Burkov, and Yuri Nikulin delivered the best performances of their careers, in our online cinema.
In the summer of 1942, the Soviet Union finds itself on the verge of defeat. Building on their major success near Kharkov, German troops launch a large-scale offensive on the southern flank. Soviet soldiers retreat, leaving civilians to their fate. Ravaged by brutal battles but strong in spirit, a Red Army rifle regiment continues to cling to every inch of its native land. Fierce fighting gives way to brief respites, rest stops to new attacks… The turning point in the confrontation is close at hand, but not everyone will live to see it.
