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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Attack and Retreat | |
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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 Peter Falk Zhanna Prokhorenko Tatyana Samojlova |
Music by | Armando Trovajoli |
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Countries | Italy USSR |
Languages | Italian Russian |
Films directed by Giuseppe De Santis | |
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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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