Italiani brava gente

Attack and Retreat
Directed by	Giuseppe De Santis Dmitri Vasilyev
Written by	Ennio De Concini Giuseppe De Santis Sergey Smirnov Augusto Frassinetti
Starring	Arthur Kennedy Zhanna Prokhorenko Raffaele Pisu Tatyana Samojlova Andrea Checchi
Music by	Armando Trovajoli
Release date	1964
Country	Italy, USSR
Language	Italian, Russian

Attack and Retreat (Italian: Italiani brava gente, Russian: Они шли на Восток, translit. Oni shli na Vostok) is a Soviet-Italian war drama film directed by Giuseppe De Santis and Dmitri Vasilyev in 1964. The movie follows the steps of Italian soldiers fighting on the Eastern Front on Hitler's side. Heavily based on diaries and memories of real war veterans.