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Panfilov's 28 Men

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USSR, Late November, 1941. Based on the account by reporter Vasiliy Koroteev that appeared in the Red Army's newspaper, Krasnaya Zvezda, shortly after the battle, this is the story of Panifilov's Twenty-Eight, a group of twenty-eight soldiers of the Red Army's 316th Rifle Division, under the command of 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 armed only with standard issue Mosin-Nagant infantry rifles and DP and PM-M1910 machine guns, all useless against tanks, and with wholly inadequate RPG-40 anti-tank grenades and PTRD-41 anti-tank rifles, they fight tirelessly and defiantly, with uncommon bravery and unwavering dedication, to protect Moscow and their Motherland.

Release Date : 2016-11-24

Language :Russian

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Gaijin EntertainmentLybian Palette

Production Country : Russia

Alternative Titles : Panfilov's Twenty Eight

Cast

Azamat Nigmanov

Character Name : Musabek Sengirbaev

Original Name : Азамат Нигманов

Gender : Male

Alexey Morozov

Character Name : Vasiliy Klochkov

Original Name : Алексей Морозов

Gender : Male

Yakiv Kucherevskyi

Character Name : Serzhant Dobrobabin

Original Name : Яків Кучеревський

Gender : Male

Oleg Fyodorov

Character Name : Grigory Shemyakin, foreman

Original Name : Олег Фёдоров

Gender : Male

Aleksej Longin

Character Name : Pavel Gundilovich

Original Name : Алексей Лонгин

Gender : Male

Dmitriy Girev

Character Name : Bondarenko

Original Name : Дмитрий Гирев

Gender : Male

Amadu Mamadakov

Character Name : Alikbay Kosaev

Original Name : Амаду Мамадаков

Gender : Male

Andrey Shalopa

Character Name : Lieutenant

Original Name : Andrey Shalopa

Gender : Male

Pavel Goncharov

Character Name : Natarov

Original Name : Павел Гончаров

Gender : Male

Nikolay Klimchuk

Character Name : Petrenko

Original Name : Nikolay Klimchuk

Gender : Male

Vitaliy Kovalenko

Character Name : Shepetkov

Original Name : Виталий Коваленко

Gender : Male

Aleksandr Plaksin

Character Name : Kryuchkov

Original Name : Александр Плаксин

Gender : Male

Anton Filipenko

Character Name : Timofeev

Original Name : Антон Филипенко

Gender : Male

Anton Kuznetsov

Character Name : Fedor Ivanovich Reshetnikov, major, battalion commander

Original Name : Антон Кузнецов

Gender : Male

Sergey Agafonov

Character Name :

Original Name : Сергей Агафонов

Gender : Male

Aziz Beyshenaliev

Character Name : Leitenant Bulatov

Original Name : Азиз Бейшеналиев

Gender : Male

Aleksandr Ustyugov

Character Name :

Original Name : Александр Устюгов

Gender : Male

Dmitriy Murashev

Character Name :

Original Name : Дмитрий Мурашёв

Gender : Male

Andrey Nekrasov

Character Name :

Original Name : Андрей Некрасов

Gender : Male

Aleksey Shutov

Character Name :

Original Name : Алексей Шутов

Gender : Male

Oleg Senchenko

Character Name :

Original Name : Олег Сенченко

Gender : Male

Andrey Bodrenkov

Character Name :

Original Name : Andrey Bodrenkov

Gender : Male

Lidiya Milyuzina

Character Name :

Original Name : Lidiya Milyuzina

Gender : Male

Dmitriy Sutyrin

Character Name :

Original Name : Дмитрий Сутырин

Gender : Male

Sergey Yatsenyuk

Character Name :

Original Name : Сергей Яценюк

Gender : Male

Ivan Batarev

Character Name :

Original Name : Иван Батарев

Gender : Male

Maksim Belborodov

Character Name :

Original Name : Максим Белбородов

Gender : Male

Yuriy Golubev

Character Name :

Original Name : Yuriy Golubev

Gender : Male

Nikolay Kiy

Character Name :

Original Name : Nikolay Kiy

Gender : Male

Mikhail Dernov

Character Name :

Original Name : Mikhail Dernov

Gender : Male

Nikolay Klyamchuk

Character Name :

Original Name : Николай Клямчук

Gender : Male

Alexey Aleshkin

Character Name :

Original Name : Alexey Aleshkin

Gender : Male

Vitaly Khadzhiev

Character Name :

Original Name : Vitaly Khadzhiev

Gender : Male

Vasily Mitkin

Character Name :

Original Name : Vasily Mitkin

Gender : Male

Sergey Korenkov

Character Name :

Original Name : Сергей Кореньков

Gender : Male

Aleksandr Kovalyov

Character Name :

Original Name : Александр Ковалёв

Gender : Male

Reviews

W

Wuchak

@Wuchak

2021-12-22

_**Eastern Front drama and action as the Red Army clashes with aggressing Nazi hordes**_ In mid-November, 1941, the remaining 28 men of a Soviet division protect Moscow from German invaders with vastly superior weaponry on a snowy landscape. "Panfilov’s 28" (2016) is surprisingly well done on a technical level for a film that only had a budget of $1,700,000 (thru crowd-funding). If you like Eastern Front WW2 films like “Cross of Iron” (1977), "Dear Elza!" (2014) and "T-34" (2018), you’ll probably appreciate it, but IMHO it’s the least of these. At the same time, I have a friend who ranks it as one of his favorites. The problem for me is that there’s zero action until the 39-minute mark and the conversations of the men up to that point, while well-written/executed, are relatively dull. Furthermore, this is a straight war flick that honors the heroes of the (supposedly) true-life battle near Dubosekovo, so don’t expect any unlikely romances or twists. Like “Gettysburg” (1993), it’s simply about modern warfare, the men who fight it and their reasons for fighting. Despite the realism of everything, including the trench-oriented combat, the movie strangely put me to sleep (but maybe I was just tired). The story is, in essence, the Soviet version of 300 Spartans with one of the soldiers even bringing up that historical account during a march. But the account has proven to be a fabrication of a Soviet newspaper for propaganda purposes. However, it IS true that small groups of Red Army soldiers on the Eastern Front boldly faced hordes of oncoming Germans troops with superior firepower to protect their Motherland. And it’s not like Americans and Brits haven’t made scores of fantastical WW2 pictures with some amount of historical realism, like “Where Eagles Dare” (1968) and “Fury” (2014). One thing that’s amazing is that almost all the tanks used in the movie are miniatures and I didn’t even notice! Except for one actual-size model tank built for the movie, the tanks are 1:16 detailed models. The sequences shot inside the tank, however, used a full-scale model of tank internals. The film runs about 2 hours and was shot at Ivanovo, Ivanovskaya oblast, Russia, with studio stuff done in St. Petersburg. GRADE: C+