Your favorite peasants from 'Earthy Love' are back — and this time it's war, baby.
Acting
Matveyev directing himself — the ultimate Soviet power move.
Production
Propaganda budget went HARD on those battle sequences.
Director
Yevgeny Matveyev
Yevgeny Matveyev
Zakhar
Zinaida Kirienko
Efrosinya
Olga Ostroumova
Manya
Yuriy Yakovlev
Bryukhanov
Valeriya Zaklunnaya
Katerina
Algimantas Masiulis
Zolding
Vadim Spiridonov
Makashin
Vladimir Samoylov
Anisimov
Georgiy Yumatov
Pekarev
Aleksandr Potapov
Nikita Bobok
Oleg Izmailov
captain
Yuri Leonidov
Tikhomirov
Mykola Oliinyk
Ukrainian soldier
Nikolai Yudin
grandfather Makar
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of the USSR's massive 1970s output of 'village prose' films romanticizing pre-revolutionary peasant life while pushing ideological narratives.
Matveyev starred in, directed, AND co-wrote — the triple threat that made him a Soviet cinema institution despite Western obscurity.
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