They Have a Motherland

Soviet Union film

Aleksandr Faintsimmer
Vladimir Legoshin

Written bySergey MikhalkovStarring

Natasha Zashchipina
Lyonya Kotov
Pavel Kadochnikov
Vera Maretskaya
Vsevolod Sanayev

CinematographyAleksandr GintsburgMusic byAram Khachaturian

Running time

83 min.CountrySoviet UnionLanguageRussian

They Have a Motherland (Russian: У них есть Родина) is a 1949 Soviet World War II film directed by Aleksandr Faintsimmer and Vladimir Legoshin.^[1]^[2]

Plot

The film tells about the representatives of Soviet intelligence, who are trying to find in West Germany an orphanage with Soviet children, which is under the supervision of British intelligence.^[3]

Starring

Natasha Zashchipina^[4] as Ira Sokolova
Lyonya Kotov as Sasha Butuzov
Pavel Kadochnikov as lieutenant colonel Aleksey Petrovich Dobrynin
Vera Maretskaya as Sasha's mother
Vsevolod Sanayev as major Vsevolod Vasilyevich Sorokin
Lidiya Smirnova as orphanage teacher Smayda
Gennady Yudin as chauffeur Kurt
Faina Ranevskaya^[5] as café owner frau Vurst
Vladimir Solovyov^[6] as Upmanis
Mikhail Astangov as orphanage chief captain Robert Scott
Viktor Stanitsyn as colonel Barkley
Aleksandr Khokhlov as Cook
Vergily Renin as captain Johnson
Yudif Glizer as journalist Dodge

References

^ Детский вопрос
^ Сегодня в Ростове стартовал Международный фестиваль военного кино
^ У них есть Родина
^ Сегодня 75-летний юбилей со дня рождения отмечает заслуженная артистка России Наталья Защипина. Она стала одной из первых юных актрис советского послевоенного кино
^ Фаина Раневская: «Со мной надо бережно обращаться»
^ У них есть Родина (1950) Full Cast & Crew