12 films dedicated to the Fatherland Defender’s Day

For everyone who attended the holiday and for their loved ones – the best films about the main characters of today’s celebration. What to watch?

“We’re from the Future” (2008)

Danila Kozlovsky in Andrey Malyukov’s fantastic action movie (“Saboteur”, “Match”, “Storm Gates”), set in the past – in August 1942 – and in the present. Four “black trackers” excavate the battlefields, until one day they find photos of themselves among the soldiers’ notebooks found.

“Brest Fortress” (2010)

The heroic defense of the Brest Fortress, which took the first blow on June 22, 1941, and a well-documented true story about three heroes. In the director’s chair, starring Andrey Merzlikin, Pavel Derevyanko, Evgeny Tsyganov and others – Alexander Kott (“Castle”, “Hero of Our Time”, “The Other Side of the Moon”).

“Stalingrad” (2013)

Fyodor Bondarchuk’s military drama chronicling the events of 1942 and one of the most important and greatest battles of the Second World War. Stalingrad, the counterattack of the Soviet troops against the German troops, was blocked, and only the scouts managed to cross the Volga to the other side and take a place in one of the houses. They were ordered to keep him at all costs.

“The Man Who Saved the World” (2014)

A documentary re-enacting the events of 1983 about Stanislav Petrov, a retired Soviet officer whose actions prevented the outbreak of a nuclear war.

“28 Panfilov” (2016)

The story of the legendary success of the 316th Infantry Division under the heroic defense of General IV Panfilov.

“We won’t say goodbye” (2018)

October 1941, in the defense of modern Tver – only two thousand people without tanks and artillery. The only hope to delay the enemy is the echelons of the fifth rifle division, but the saboteurs are ready to do anything to prevent them from reaching the city.

“T-34” (2018)

Military blockbuster from the author of “The Brigade” Alexei Sidorov with Alexander Petrov and Irina Starshenbaum. Yesterday’s student and today’s lieutenant Nikolai Ivushkin is preparing to escape from the concentration camp in a tank at the end of the Great Patriotic War.

“The sky is measured in miles” (2019)

Evgeny Stychkin, Maryana Spivak and Andrey Merzlikin in Konstantin Buslov’s film about the life and fate of the legendary Soviet helicopter designer Mikhail Leontievich Mil (“Kalashnikov”, “1941. Wings over Berlin”, “Adventurers”).

“Podolsky students” (2020)

Drama from the authors of the Brest Fortress. In October 1941, near Moscow, about three and a half thousand cadets from the Podolsk artillery and infantry schools were ordered to defend on the Ilyinsky line and, together with the regular units of the 43rd Army, to stop the advance of the fascist invaders. until reinforcements arrive. The dying children of yesterday continue to defend against the many times larger forces of the Germans, and for twelve days they become an obstacle on the enemy’s way to Moscow.

Devyatayev (2021)

Historical military drama by Timur Bekmambetov and Sergey Trofimov. In the summer of 1944, fighter pilot Mikhail Devyatayayev (Pavel Priluchny) is captured and plans the most daring escape in military history.

“1941. Wings Over Berlin (2022)

This is a story about the success of the pilots of the first mine-torpedo aviation regiment of the Baltic Fleet Air Force, led by Colonel EN Preobrazhensky. They had the most difficult combat task – to make the first bombing attacks on Berlin.

“First Oscar” (2022)

The historical drama of Sergei Mokritsky (“Battle for Sevastopol”), dedicated to the history of the creation of the documentary film “The Defeat of the German Troops near Moscow” (1942). In the center of the plot are student operators who go to the front with cameras. So the 15th Oscar ceremony began with a sensation – the main Hollywood movie award was received by a documentary from the USSR.