USSR, November, 1941. Based on the account by Vasiliy Koroteev this is the story of Panifilov's Twenty-Eight, a group of twenty-eight Red Army soldiers commanded by General Ivan Panfilov, that stopped the advance on Moscow of a column of fifty-four Nazi tanks of the 11th Panzer Division for several days. Though lightly armed they fight tirelessly and defiantly, with uncommon bravery and unwavering dedication, to protect Moscow and their Motherland.
Practical Effects
Real T-34 and Panzer replicas—no CGI, just metal and madness.
Cinematography
Snow so white it hurts; mud so brown it haunts.
Production
Crowdfunded by 35,000 Russians who refused to let this story die.
Director
Kim Druzhinin
Azamat Nigmanov
Musabek Sengirbaev
Alexey Morozov
Vasiliy Klochkov
Yakiv Kucherevskyi
Serzhant Dobrobabin
Oleg Fyodorov
Grigory Shemyakin, foreman
Aleksej Longin
Pavel Gundilovich
Dmitriy Girev
Bondarenko
Amadu Mamadakov
Alikbay Kosaev
Andrey Shalyopa
Lieutenant
Pavel Goncharov
Natarov
Vitaliy Kovalenko
Shepetkov
Aleksandr Plaksin
Kryuchkov
Anton Filipenko
Timofeev
Anton Kuznetsov
Fedor Ivanovich Reshetnikov, major, battalion commander
Sergey Agafonov
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Panfilov legend was Soviet canon until 1998, when archives suggested casualties were inflated and some 'martyrs' survived. The film knowingly embraces the myth.
Director Kim Druzhinin died in 2020; this remains his most commercially successful film, though critics split on its nationalist tone.
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It never came out in the cinemas in Australia
@triggertime7308 6
Incredible battle scenes..!!! 10 /10
@urchill1 3
Just bought it on iTunes, sadly they only have the english dub and not the Russian version with subtitles. Looks great either way.
@robin6469 3
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