| Release Date: | Jan 2002 |
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| Genres: | War / History / Drama / Adventure / Action |
| Awards: | 5 wins & 4 nominations |
| Cast: | Igor Petrenko (Lt. Travkin), Artyom Semakin (Pvt. Vorobiev), Aleksei Panin (Sgt. Kostya Mamochkin), Aleksey Kravchenko (Sgt. Anikanov), Anatoli Gushchin (Pvt. Bykov), Amadu Mamadakov (Pvt. Temdekov), Yuri Laguta (Sgt. Brazhnikov), Yekaterina Vulichenko (Pvt. Katya Simakova), Andrei Yegorov (Capt. Andrei Barashkin), Sergey Miller (First Captured German), Gennadi Vorotnikov (Second Captured German), Aleksandr Efimov (Third Captured German), Aleksandr Naumov (Serbichenko), Aleksandr Dyachenko (Galiyev), Oleg Gushchin (Likhachyov), Ivan Kokorin (Meshchersky), Aleksandra Chichkova (Communications Servicewoman), Sergei Ruzayevich (Communications Serviceman), Kristina Babushkina (Cameo (uncredited)), Alexandr Ustyugov (German soldier in the barn (uncredited)) |
The film is based on the eponymous book by Emmanuil Kazakevich. In the summer of 1944 the Nazi Armies prepare a massive Tank Division named 'Viking" for the offensive on occupied Russian land. The Russian Army's special group of seven snipers named "Zvezda" is sent for a reconnaissance operation behind the enemy lines in the back of the Nazi Tank Division. Two previous Russian groups never came back. The seven Russians know that they are going to an almost certain Death for the sake of Victory.
