Attack and Retreat

Attack and Retreat

Directed by	Giuseppe De Santis, Dmitri Vasilyev
Written by	Ennio De Concini, Giuseppe De Santis, Sergey Smirnov, Augusto Frassinetti
Music by	Armando Trovajoli
Release dates	1964
Country	Italy, USSR
Language	Italian, Russian

Attack and Retreat (Italian: Italiani brava gente, Russian: Они шли на Восток) 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 fighting on the Eastern Front on Hitler's side. Heavily based on diaries and memories of real war veterans.

Cast

Arthur Kennedy as Ferro Maria Ferri
Zhanna Prokhorenko as Katya
Raffaele Pisu as Gabrielli
Tatyana Samojlova as Sonya
Andrea Checchi as Sermonti
Riccardo Cucciolla as Sanna
Valeri Somov as Giuliani
Peter Falk as Medic Captain
Nino Vingelli as Amalfitano
Lev Prygunov as Bazzocchi
Grigory Mikhaylov as Russian Partisan (as Grigorij Mikhailov)
Erwin Knausmyuller as German colonel
Gino Pernice as Collidi
Boris Kozhukhov as Major
Vincenzo Polizzi as Sicilian

External links

Attack and Retreat at the Internet Movie Database
Boris Bondarenko (1976). Pyramide. Moscow: Soviet writer. 472 p.

Films directed by Giuseppe De Santis

Tragic Hunt (1947) • Bitter Rice (1949) • No Peace Under the Olive Tree (1950) • Rome 11:00 (1952) • A Husband for Anna (1953) • Days of Love (1954) • The Wolves (1956) • The Road a Year Long (1958) • La garçonnière (1960) • Attack and Retreat (1965) • Un apprezzato professionista di sicuro avvenire (1972)

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