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Attack and Retreat
Attack and Retreat

Attack and Retreat

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

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DramaHistoryWar

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

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Budget

$--

Revenue

$--

Status

Released

Original Language

Italian

Runtime

148 mins

Rating

6.732/10

Release Date

16 September 1964

Country

Italy

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

Vincenzo Polizzi

sicilian

Franco Moruzzi

Franco Moruzzi

Pasqualino Ferri

Pasqualino Ferri

Mario Anniballi

Mario Anniballi

Alvaro Ceccarelli

Alvaro Ceccarelli

Livia Contardi

Livia Contardi

Valeri Somov

Valeri Somov

Giuliani (uncredited)

Boris Kozhukhov

Boris Kozhukhov

italian major (uncredited)

Elza Lezhdey

Elza Lezhdey

guerrilla woman (uncredited)

Danuta Stolyarskaya

Danuta Stolyarskaya

guerrilla unit doctor (uncredited)

Ervin Knausmyuller

Ervin Knausmyuller

german colonel (uncredited)

Lavrenti Masokha

Lavrenti Masokha

partisan (uncredited)

Valeri Golovnenkov

Valeri Golovnenkov

wounded man (uncredited)

Ivan Paramonov

Ivan Paramonov

german soldier-deserter (uncredited)

Otar Koberidze

Otar Koberidze

wounded italian soldier (uncredited)

Ivan Savkin

Ivan Savkin

partisan (uncredited)

Yan Yanakiyev

Yan Yanakiyev

major (uncredited)

Aleksandr Kuznetsov

Aleksandr Kuznetsov

cook (uncredited)

Fortunato Arena

Fortunato Arena

Malingering Soldier

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