She Defends the Motherland, (Russian: Она защищает Родину) is a 1943[1] Soviet drama 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.
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Russian: Она защищает Родину | |
Directed by | Fridrikh Ermler |
Written by | Aleksei Kapler |
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Cinematography | Vladimir Rapoport |
Music by | Gavriil Popov |
Country | Soviet Union |
Praskovya Lukyanova, a rural villager in the USSR, first loses her husband in battle at the outbreak of WWII, and then her only, small 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.
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