

Attack and Retreat
September 16, 1964•2h 28m•★ 6.7
DramaHistoryWar
“They were damned by fate and dogged by a deadly foe!”
Chronicle of the unheralded and unsuccessful invasion of the Soviet Union by the Italian army during World War II.
Director
Giuseppe De SantisCast

Arthur Kennedy
Ferro Maria Ferri

Tatyana Samoylova
Sonya

Raffaele Pisu
Gabrielli

Zhanna Prokhorenko
Katya

Andrea Checchi
Sermonti

Riccardo Cucciolla
Giuseppe Sanna

Nino Vingelli
Amalfitano

Lev Prygunov
Bazzocchi

Grigory Mikhaylov
russian partisan

Gino Pernice
Collodi

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

Elza Lezhdey
guerrilla woman (uncredited)