She Defends the Motherland

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| name = She Defends the Motherland

| native_name = {{langx|ru|Она защищает Родину}}

| image = Плакат к фильму «Она защищает Родину».jpg

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| director = Fridrikh Ermler

| producer =

| writer = Aleksei Kapler

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| music = Gavriil Popov

| cinematography = Vladimir Rapoport

| editing =

| studio = TsOKS

| released = {{Film date|1943|05|20}}

| runtime = 100 minutes

| country = Soviet Union

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She Defends the Motherland, ({{langx|ru|Она защищает Родину}}) is a 1943[http://www.giport.ru/news_city/113190 Центр культуры «РЕКОРД» приглашает на бесплатный просмотр кино с 7 по 11 марта] Soviet World War II film starring Vera Maretskaya and directed by Fridrikh Ermler.[http://rt-online.ru/20-maya-3/ 20 мая][http://vm.ru/news/491291.html Сергей Собянин пригласил горожан бесплатно посетить посвященную Дню Победы кинопрограмму сети «Москино»][http://nrnews.ru/news/kultura/97661-v-novorossiyske-proshla-prezentaciya-kulturno-prosvetitelskogo-proekta-geroi-kubani-v-letopisi-velikoy-pobedy.html В Новороссийске прошла презентация культурно-просветительского проекта «Герои Кубани в летописи Великой Победы»][https://rg.ru/2017/05/12/reg-szfo/volshebnoj-kinoskazke-zolushka-ispolnilos-70-let.html Туфельки не износились] 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 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. 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.

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