They Fought for the Motherland
Sergei Bondarchuk. They Fought for the Motherland (1975)
Description: During the Soviet retreat to Stalingrad, summer 1942. Lopakhin (Shukshin) and his fellow soldiers stop at an old peasant woman's hut to ask for a pail and a bit of salt to boil their crayfish. She refuses, then turns on them: how dare they retreat, who will defend the people from the Germans. She has three sons and a son-in-law at the front; her youngest was killed at Sevastopol. Lopakhin asks her forgiveness and walks off. The film was Shukshin's last role; he died during filming in October 1974..
From Sergei Bondarchuk, Они сражались за Родину / They Fought for the Motherland (Mosfilm, 1975). Adapted from Mikhail Sholokhov's novel of the same title (1943–1969, unfinished). Pyotr Lopakhin played by Vasily Shukshin.