She Defends the Motherland

She Defends the Motherland, (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. Thus convicted of the need to fight back, she organizes her fellow villagers in the forest, where they have taken refuge, into a guerilla unit which first thwarts, then overcomes, the fascist invaders.

Starring

 * Vera Maretskaya as Praskovya Lukyanova
 * Nikolay Bogolyubov as Ivan Lukyanov (as N. Bogolyubov)
 * Lidiya Smirnova as Fenya (as L. Smirnova)
 * Pyotr Aleynikov as Senya (as P. Alenikov)
 * Ivan Pelttser as Stepan Orlov (as I. Peltser)
 * Inna Fyodorova as Orlova (as I. Fyodorovna)
 * Aleksandr Violinov as Nikolai Nikolayevich (as A. Violinov)
 * ? as General Von Falk
 * ? as The One-Eyed German Tankist