''They Have a Motherland'' (russian: У них есть Родина) is a 1949

Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...

drama film directed by

Aleksandr Faintsimmer Aleksandr Mikhailovich Faintsimmer (Feinzimmer, russian: Александр Михайлович Файнциммер; 31 December 1906 – 21 March 1982) was a Soviet film director. He has been cited as a filmmaker on the forefront of Russi ...

and Vladimir Legoshin.

Plot

The film tells about the representatives of Soviet intelligence, who are trying to find in West Germany an orphanage with Soviet children, which is under the supervision of British intelligence.

Starring

* Natasha Zashchipina as Ira Sokolova * Lyonya Kotov as Sasha Butuzov * Pavel Kadochnikov as lieutenant colonel Aleksey Petrovich Dobrynin *

Vera Maretskaya Vera Petrovna Maretskaya ( Russian: Вера Петровна Марецкая) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actress. People's Artist of the USSR (1949) and Hero of Socialist Labour (1976). Early years Vera Petrovna Maretskaya was bo ...

as Sasha's mother *

Vsevolod Sanayev Vsevolod Vasilyevich Sanayev (Все′волод Васи′льевич Сана′ев; 25 2, o.s.February 1912 in Tula, Russian Empire – 27 January 1996 in Moscow, Russia) was a Soviet film and stage actor popular in the 1960s–1970s. Sanay ...

as major Vsevolod Vasilyevich Sorokin *

Lidiya Smirnova Lidiya Nikolayevna Smirnova (russian: Ли́дия Никола́евна Смирно́ва; 1915 — 2007) was a Soviet and Russian theater and film actress. People's Artist of USSR (1974). The winner of the Stalin Prize of the third degree ( ...

as orphanage teacher Smayda *

Gennady Yudin Gennady Petrovich Yudin (russian: Геннадий Петрович Юдин; 27 March 1923, Moscow – 13 November 1989, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. Laureate of Stalin Prize (1951). Filmography * ''The Russian Question' ...

as chauffeur Kurt *

Faina Ranevskaya Faina Georgievna Ranevskaya (russian: Фаина Георгиевна Раневская, born Faina Girschevna Feldman, — 19 July 1984), is recognized as one of the greatest Soviet actresses in both tragedy and comedy. She was also famous for ...

as café owner frau Vurst * Vladimir SolovyovУ них есть Родина (1950) Full Cast & Crew
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Mikhail Astangov Mikhail Fyodorovich Astangov (russian: Михаи́л Фёдорович Аста́нгов), real surname Ruzhnikov () ( in Warsaw – 20 April 1965 in Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor. People's Artist of the USSR (1955). ...

as orphanage chief captain Robert Scott *

Viktor Stanitsyn Viktor Yakovlevich Stanitsyn (russian: Ви́ктор Я́ковлевич Стани́цын; 1897–1976) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor.Riley p.73 He appeared in a number of Soviet era films including portraying Winston Churchill ...

as colonel Barkley * Aleksandr Khokhlov as Cook *Vergily Renin as captain Johnson * Yudif Glizer as journalist Dodge

References

External links

* {{Aleksandr Faintsimmer 1949 drama films 1949 films Films scored by Aram Khachaturian 1940s Russian-language films Soviet black-and-white films Soviet drama films