They Have a Motherland (1949)

10.0/10 • 90 min • Drama

Overview

The Great Patriotic War is over, but Major Sorokin and Colonel Dobrygin still have a lot to do for their homeland. They must go to West Germany in order to find and return the children who were taken out of the Soviet Union by the Nazis and are now kept in atrocious conditions under the supervision of British intelligence. Former allies want to grow real spies out of their children.

Cast

Natalya Zashchipina

Ира Соколова

Pavel Kadochnikov

Добрынин

Vera Maretskaya

Vsevolod Sanayev

Faina Ranevskaya

Mikhail Astangov

Viktor Stanitsyn

Yelena Anufriyeva

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