In the Name of the Fatherland

In the Name of the Fatherland
Directed byVsevolod Pudovkin
Dmitri Vasilyev
Written byVsevolod Pudovkin
Dmitri Vasilyev
Konstantin Simonov (play)
StarringNikolai Kryuchkov
Mikhail Zharov
Olga Zhizneva
CinematographyEra Savelyeva
Boris Volchek
Production
companies
Release date
  • 20 July 1954 (1954-07-20)
Running time
94 minutes
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageRussian

In the Name of the Fatherland (Russian: Во имя Родины, Vo imya Rodiny) is a 1943 Soviet World War II film directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin and Dmitri Vasilyev based on the play Russian People by Konstantin Simonov.

Cast

  • Nikolai Kryuchkov as captain Ivan Nikitich Safonov
  • Yelena Tyapkina as Marfa Petrovna Safonova, his mother
  • Mikhail Zharov as lieutenant paramedic Ivan Ivanovich Globa
  • Mariya Pastukhova as Valentina Nikolayevna Anoshchenko
  • Vladimir Gribkov as Nikolai Kharitonov, medicine doctor
  • Olga Zhizneva as Mariya Nikolayevna Kharitonova
  • Fyodor Kurikhin as Aleksandr Vasilyevich Vasin
  • Pyotr Aleynikov as Ilyin
  • Vsevolod Pudovkin as German general
  • Boris Poslavsky as Werner, German colonel