Attack and Retreat

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Attack and Retreat
Directed by	Giuseppe De Santis Dmitri Vasilyev
Written by	Ennio De Concini Giuseppe De Santis Sergey Smirnov
Starring	Arthur Kennedy Peter Falk Zhanna Prokhorenko Tatyana Samojlova
Music by	Armando Trovajoli
Release date	1964 (1964)
Countries	Italy USSR
Languages	Italian Russian

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.

Cast[]

• Arthur Kennedy as Ferro Maria Ferri
• Peter Falk as Lieutenant Mario Salvioni
• Zhanna Prokhorenko as Katya
• Raffaele Pisu as Libero Gabrielli
• Tatyana Samojlova as Sonya
• Andrea Checchi as Colonel Sermonti
• Riccardo Cucciolla as Giuseppe Sanna
• as Giuliani
• Nino Vingelli as Amalfitano
• Lev Prygunov as Loris Bazzocchi
• as Russian Partisan (as Grigorij Mikhailov)
• as German colonel
• Gino Pernice as Collodi
• as Major
• as Sicilian

External links[]

• Attack and Retreat at IMDb 
• Boris Bondarenko (1976). Pyramide. Moscow: Soviet writer. 472 p.

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