Attack and Retreat

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.

Drama History War

Arthur Kennedy

(Ferro Maria Ferri)

Tatyana Samoylova

Raffaele Pisu

Zhanna Prokhorenko

Andrea Checchi

Riccardo Cucciolla

(Giuseppe Sanna)

Nino Vingelli

Lev Prygunov

Grigory Mikhaylov

(russian partisan)

Gino Pernice

Peter Falk

(lieutenant Mario)

Vincenzo Polizzi

Franco Moruzzi

Pasqualino Ferri

Mario Anniballi

Alvaro Ceccarelli

Livia Contardi

Valeri Somov

(Giuliani (uncredited))

Boris Kozhukhov

(italian major (uncredited))

Elza Lezhdey

(guerrilla woman (uncredited))

Danuta Stolyarskaya

(guerrilla unit doctor (uncredited))

Ervin Knausmyuller

(german colonel (uncredited))

Lavrenti Masokha

(partisan (uncredited))

Valeri Golovnenkov

(wounded man (uncredited))

Ivan Paramonov

(german soldier-deserter (uncredited))

Otar Koberidze

(wounded italian soldier (uncredited))

Ivan Savkin

(partisan (uncredited))

Yan Yanakiyev

(major (uncredited))

Aleksandr Kuznetsov

(cook (uncredited))

Fortunato Arena

(Malingering Soldier)