

“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
User score
43 votes
Released
September 16, 1964
2h 28m
Italian, Russian, Spanish, German

Arthur Kennedy
Ferro Maria Ferri

Zhanna Prokhorenko
Katya

Raffaele Pisu
Gabrielli

Tatyana Samoylova
Sonya

Andrea Checchi
Sermonti

Riccardo Cucciolla
Sanna
Valeri Somov
Giuliani

Peter Falk
Medic Captain

Nino Vingelli
Amalfitano

Lev Prygunov
Bazzocchi

Grigory Mikhaylov
Russian Partisan
Ivan Paramonov
German Deserter

Gino Pernice
Collodi
Boris Kozhukhov
Major
Vincenzo Polizzi
Sicilian

Ervin Knausmyuller
German General

Otar Koberidze
Wounded Italian

Yan Yanakiyev
Doctor

Danuta Stolyarskaya
Partisan Detachment Doctor

Lavrenti Masokha
Partisan