Photo by V. Shukshin and V. Tikhonov during the filming of the film "They fought for the Motherland"

The original picture taken and printed by one of the members of the film crew. On thick photo paper without marking. Size 100*140 mm. The reverse side is clean. Guaranteed original.

1. "They Fought for the Motherland" is a Soviet film by Sergei Bondarchuk based on the novel of the same name by Mikhail Sholokhov. The best film according to the survey of the magazine "Soviet Screen" in 1976. Filming took place from May to October 1974 in the Volgograd region. In 1977, he was awarded the State Prize of the RSFSR named after the Vasiliev brothers.


2. Vasily Makarovich Shukshin (July 25, 1929, village of Srostki, Biysk district, Altai Krai — October 2, 1974, Stanitsa Kletskaya, Volgograd Region) was a Soviet film director, actor, screenwriter and writer, Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1969). Laureate of the Lenin Prize (1976 — posthumously), the State Prize of the USSR (1971) and the State Prize of the RSFSR named after the Vasiliev brothers (1967). In the film he played the role of P.F. Lopakhin.


3. Vyacheslav Vasilyevich Tikhonov (February 8, 1928, Pavlovsky Posad, Bogorodsky Uyezd, Moscow Province, USSR — December 4, 2009, Moscow, Russia) was a Soviet and Russian film and voice actor. Hero of Socialist Labor (1982), People's Artist of the USSR (1974), laureate of the USSR State Prize (1970), the Vasiliev Brothers State Prize of the RSFSR (1976), the Lenin Komsomol Prize (1979) and the Lenin Prize (1980). Knight of the Order of Lenin (1982). Member of the CPSU since 1976.Tikhonov's greatest fame came from the role of the scout Isaev-Stirlitz in Tatiana Lioznova's 12-episode TV movie "Seventeen Moments of Spring" (1973).