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Praskovya Lukyanova, a rural villager in the USSR, first loses her husband in battle at the outbreak of WWII, and then her only young son, who is run over deliberately by a Nazi tank driven by a soldier wearing an eyepatch, as the Germans take over the village.
G. F. Aleksandrov, Report on the Film “She Defends the Motherland”. May 11, 1943. Translated by James von Geldern. This memo from the Party’s Agitprop director finds ideological flaws even in the film that came to emblemize the Soviet people’s commitment to total war.
She Defends the Motherland (Russian: Она защищает Родину) is a 1943 Soviet drama movie directed by Fridrikh Ermler. It stars Vera Maretskaya, Nikolay Bogolyubov, and Lidiya Smirnova. Actors. Vera Maretskaya as Praskovya Lukyanova; Nikolay Bogolyubov as Ivan Lukyanov (as N. Bogolyubov)
Apr 3, 2014 · She Defends the Motherland (1943) The leader of this partisan band, who has lost her husband and child to Nazi marauders, and whose powers seem to include joining the younger members of the group...
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She Defends the Motherland, (Russian: Она защищает Родину) is a 1943 Soviet drama film starring Vera Maretskaya and directed by Fridrikh Ermler. It was distributed in the United States by Artkino Pictures as No Greater Love, also in 1943, with a dubbed-English soundtrack. Plot
Praskovya Lukyanova, a rural villager in the USSR, first loses her husband in battle at the outbreak of WWII, and then her only, small son, who is run over deliberately by a Nazi tank driven by a soldier wearing a eyepatch, as the Germans take over the village.
THE CANONICAL MOVIE OF THE WAR YEARS was Fridrikh Ermler's She Defends the Motherland (Ona zashchishaet rodinu, a 1943 Mosfilm production released in the United States as No Greater Love).1" In it, Ermler, a gifted director who had been coopted by the system,12 developed what had become the prototypical narrative for
