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Attack and Retreat

Attack and Retreat

They were damned by fate and dogged by a deadly foe!

1964•2h 28m•6.7/10
DramaHistoryWar

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6.7/10(43)

Chronicle of the unheralded and unsuccessful invasion of the Soviet Union by the Italian army during World War II.

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Production

Galatea Film, Mosfilm, Titanus

Language

IT

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Arthur Kennedy

Arthur Kennedy

Ferro Maria Ferri

Tatyana Samoylova

Tatyana Samoylova

Sonya

Raffaele Pisu

Raffaele Pisu

Gabrielli

Zhanna Prokhorenko

Zhanna Prokhorenko

Katya

Andrea Checchi

Andrea Checchi

Sermonti

Riccardo Cucciolla

Riccardo Cucciolla

Giuseppe Sanna

Nino Vingelli

Nino Vingelli

Amalfitano

Lev Prygunov

Lev Prygunov

Bazzocchi

Grigory Mikhaylov

Grigory Mikhaylov

russian partisan

Gino Pernice

Gino Pernice

Collodi

Peter Falk

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

Elza Lezhdey

guerrilla woman (uncredited)

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