DramaHistoryWar
Attack and Retreat
“They were damned by fate and dogged by a deadly foe!”
Chronicle of the unheralded and unsuccessful invasion of the Soviet Union by the Italian army during World War II.
Directed by Giuseppe De Santis
67
User score
43 votes
Status
Released
Released
September 16, 1964
Runtime
2h 28m
Language
Italian, Russian, Spanish, German
Top cast
Arthur Kennedy
Ferro Maria Ferri
Tatyana Samoylova
Sonya
Raffaele Pisu
Gabrielli
Zhanna Prokhorenko
Katya
Andrea Checchi
Sermonti
Riccardo Cucciolla
Giuseppe Sanna
Nino Vingelli
Amalfitano
Lev Prygunov
Bazzocchi
Grigory Mikhaylov
russian partisan
Gino Pernice
Collodi
Peter Falk
lieutenant Mario
Vincenzo Polizzi
sicilian
Franco Moruzzi
Pasqualino Ferri
Mario Anniballi
Alvaro Ceccarelli
Livia Contardi
Valeri Somov
Giuliani (uncredited)
Boris Kozhukhov
italian major (uncredited)
Elza Lezhdey
guerrilla woman (uncredited)
