In the Name of the Fatherland
In the Name of the Fatherland is a 1943 Soviet World War II film directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin and Dmitri Vasilyev based on the play Russian People by Konstantin Simonov.
Cast
- Nikolai Kryuchkov as captain Ivan Nikitich Safonov
- Yelena Tyapkina as Marfa Petrovna Safonova, his mother
- Mikhail Zharov as lieutenant paramedic Ivan Ivanovich Globa
- Mariya Pastukhova as Valentina Nikolayevna Anoshchenko
- Vladimir Gribkov as Nikolai Kharitonov, medicine doctor
- Olga Zhizneva as Mariya Nikolayevna Kharitonova
- Fyodor Kurikhin as Aleksandr Vasilyevich Vasin
- Pyotr Aleynikov as Ilyin
- Vsevolod Pudovkin as German general
- Boris Poslavsky as Werner, German colonel