

They Have a Motherland
1949, Russian. Directed by Alexandr Faintsimmer & Vladimir Legoshin.
The Great Patriotic War is over, but Major Sorokin and Colonel Dobrygin still have a lot to do for their homeland. They must go to West Germany in order to find and return the children who were taken out of the Soviet Union by the Nazis and are now kept in atrocious conditions under the supervision of British intelligence. Former allies want to grow real spies out of their children.
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Russian
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- Released
- 29 April 1949
- Original title
- У них есть Родина
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Written by
- Sergey Mikhalkov
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They Have a Motherland runs 90 minutes (1h 30m).
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They Have a Motherland isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 29 April 1949. (Checked 13 November 2026.)
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Who directed They Have a Motherland?
They Have a Motherland (1949) was directed by Alexandr Faintsimmer and Vladimir Legoshin and stars Natalya Zashchipina, Leonid Kotov, Pavel Kadochnikov.