

148 minutes
9/16/1964
Chronicle of the unheralded and unsuccessful invasion of the Soviet Union by the Italian army during World War II.

Arthur Kennedy
as Ferro Maria Ferri

Tatyana Samoylova
as Sonya

Raffaele Pisu
as Gabrielli

Zhanna Prokhorenko
as Katya

Andrea Checchi
as Sermonti

Riccardo Cucciolla
as Giuseppe Sanna

Nino Vingelli
as Amalfitano

Lev Prygunov
as Bazzocchi

Grigory Mikhaylov
as russian partisan

Gino Pernice
as Collodi

Peter Falk
as lieutenant Mario
Vincenzo Polizzi
as sicilian
Franco Moruzzi
Pasqualino Ferri
Mario Anniballi
Alvaro Ceccarelli
Livia Contardi
Valeri Somov
as Giuliani (uncredited)
Boris Kozhukhov
as italian major (uncredited)

Elza Lezhdey
as guerrilla woman (uncredited)

Danuta Stolyarskaya
as guerrilla unit doctor (uncredited)

Ervin Knausmyuller
as german colonel (uncredited)

Lavrenti Masokha
as partisan (uncredited)
Valeri Golovnenkov
as wounded man (uncredited)
Ivan Paramonov
as german soldier-deserter (uncredited)

Otar Koberidze
as wounded italian soldier (uncredited)

Ivan Savkin
as partisan (uncredited)

Yan Yanakiyev
as major (uncredited)

Aleksandr Kuznetsov
as cook (uncredited)

Fortunato Arena
as Malingering Soldier