They Fought for Their Motherland

Vasiliy Shukshin

Piotr Lopakhin

Vyacheslav Tikhonov

pvt. Nikolay Strel'tsov

Sergey Bondarchuk

pvt. Ivan Zvyagintsev

Yuriy Nikulin

pvt. Nekrasov

Georgi Burkov

pvt. Alexander Kopytovsky

Ivan Lapikov

sergeant Poprischenko

Nikolai Gubenko

lieutenant Goloschyokov

Nikolay Volkov

pvt. Nikiforov

Nonna Mordyukova

Natalya Stepanovna

Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy

surgeon

Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina

Glasha

Andrei Rostotsky

corporal Kochetygov

Tatyana Bozhok

nurse

Mykola Shutko

cook lisichenko

Andrei Popov

author's narration