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Fortress of War is a russe film of genre Drama directed by Alexandre Kott released in USA on 11 november 2010 with Pavel Derevyanko

Fortress of War (2010)

Brestskaya krepost

Fortress of War
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Released in USA 11 november 2010
Length 2h18
Directed by
OriginRussie
Genres Drama,    War,    Action,    Historical
Rating73% 3.697583.697583.697583.697583.69758

Fortress of War (Russian: Брестская крепость; translit. Brestskaia krepost; festival title: The Brest Fortress) is a 2010 Russian war film.

It recounts the events surrounding the June 1941 Defense of Brest Fortress against invading Wehrmacht forces in the opening stages of Operation Barbarossa, Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II. The movie is accompanied by in medias res narration from the perspective of (then) 15-year-old Sasha Akimov, and mainly centers on three resistance zones holding out against the protracted German siege, headed by regiment commander Pyotr Gavrilov, the political commissar Yefim Fomin, and the head of the 9th Frontier Outpost, Andrey Mitrofanovich Kizhevatov.

The plot follows the events as closely to historical fact as possible, and the Brest Fortress Museum supervised the plot thoroughly.

Synopsis

The film opens on Saturday, June 21, 1941. Sasha Akimov, a 15-year-old musician, and his older brother, Alexander, whose parents were killed in the Spanish Civil War, are serving with the Red Army at the Brest Fortress. Elsewhere, a commissar, Yefim Fomin, discovers he is unable to bring his family to Brest due to a shortage of train tickets. Another officer, Gavrilov, continues to express concern of the readiness of the fort's defenses should an attack come, despite warnings from his friend, Vanshtein, about his statements regarding an imminent war with Germany. That evening, the fortress loses power due to German commandoes.

Actors

Pavel Derevyanko

(Ефим Фомин)
Andreï Merzlikine

(лейтенант Кижеватов)
Ivan Krasko

(читает закадровый текст, озвучка)
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