They Have a Motherland (Russian: У них есть Родина) is a 1949 Soviet World War II film directed by Aleksandr Faintsimmer and Vladimir Legoshin. It is based on a play by Sergey Mikhalkov.^[1][2]

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.^[3]

Cast

• Natasha Zashchipina^[4] as Ira Sokolova
• Lyonya Kotov as Sasha Butuzov
• Pavel Kadochnikov as lieutenant colonel Aleksey Petrovich Dobrynin
• Vera Maretskaya as Sasha's mother
• Vsevolod Sanayev as major Vsevolod Vasilyevich Sorokin
• Lidiya Smirnova as orphanage teacher Smayda
• Gennady Yudin as chauffeur Kurt
• Faina Ranevskaya^[5] as café owner frau Vurst
• Vladimir Solovyov^[6] as Upmanis
• Mikhail Astangov as orphanage chief captain Robert Scott
• Viktor Stanitsyn as colonel Barkley
• Aleksandr Khokhlov as Cook
• Vergily Renin as captain Johnson
• Yudif Glizer as journalist Dodge

References

External links

• They Have a Motherland at IMDb

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