They Fought for Their Motherland

Vasiliy Shukshin

Pyotr Lopakhin

Vyacheslav Tikhonov

pvt. Nikolay Strel'tsov

Sergei Bondarchuk

pvt. Ivan Zvyagintsev

Georgi Burkov

pvt. Alexander Kopytovsky

Yuriy Nikulin

pvt. Nekrasov

Ivan Lapikov

sergeant Poprischenko

Nikolai Gubenko

lieutenant Goloschyokov

Andrei Rostotsky

corporal Kochetygov

Nikolai Volkov

pvt. Nikiforov

Mykola Shutko

cook lisichenko

Evgeniy Samoylov

Colonel Marchenko

Nonna Mordyukova

Natalya Stepanovna

Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy

surgeon

Angelina Stepanova

old Cossack woman

Irina Skobtseva

head nurse