Attack and Retreat

Attack and Retreat

148 mins | Drama, War, History | Sept. 16, 1964

Chronicle of the unheralded and unsuccessful invasion of the Soviet Union by the Italian army during World War II.

Attack and Retreat

148 mins | Drama, War, History | Sept. 16, 1964

Attack and Retreat
Chronicle of the unheralded and unsuccessful invasion of the Soviet Union by the Italian army during World War II.
IMDb rating 7.1
Producers Mosfilm, Titanus, Galatea Film
Original title Italiani brava gente
Directors Dmitriy Vasilev, Romolo Guerrieri, Giuseppe De Santis, Luciana Marinucci
Writers Sergei Smirnov, Augusto Frassinetti, Gian Domenico Giagni, Giancarlo Fusco, Ennio De Concini, Giuseppe De Santis

Cast

Arthur Kennedy

as Ferro Maria Ferri

Raffaele Pisu

as Gabrielli

Andrea Checchi

as Sermonti

Riccardo Cucciolla

as Giuseppe Sanna

Nino Vingelli

as Amalfitano

Lev Prygunov

as Bazzocchi

Grigory Mikhaylov

as russian partisan

Gino Pernice

as Collodi

Peter Falk

as lieutenant Mario

Vincenzo Polizzi

as sicilian

Valeri Somov

as Giuliani (uncredited)

Boris Kozhukhov

as italian major (uncredited)

Elza Lezhdey

as guerrilla woman (uncredited)

Danuta Stolyarskaya

as guerrilla unit doctor (uncredited)

Erwin Knausmüller

as german colonel (uncredited)

Lavrenti Masokha

as partisan (uncredited)

Valeri Golovnenkov

as wounded man (uncredited)

Ivan Paramonov

as german soldier-deserter (uncredited)

Otar Koberidze

as wounded italian soldier (uncredited)

Ivan Savkin

as partisan (uncredited)

Yan Yanakiyev

as major (uncredited)

Aleksandr Kuznetsov

as cook (uncredited)