WarDrama

The Star

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.

Release Date : 2002-05-06

Language :Russian

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : ARK-FilmMosfilm

Production Country : Russia

Alternative Titles : The Star

Cast

Character Name : Lt. Travkin

Original Name : Игорь Петренко

Gender : Male

Character Name : Sgt. Kostya Mamochkin

Original Name : Алексей Панин

Gender : Male

Character Name : Sgt. Anikanov

Original Name : Алексей Кравченко

Gender : Male

Character Name : Galiyev

Original Name : Александр Дьяченко

Gender : Male

Character Name : Pvt. Temdekov

Original Name : Амаду Мамадаков

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Максим Браматкин

Gender : Male

Character Name : Pvt. Katya Simakova

Original Name : Екатерина Вуличенко

Gender : Female

Character Name :

Original Name : Артём Семакин

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Анатолий Гущин

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Yuri Laguta

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Andrey Egorov

Gender : Male

Character Name : Meshchersky

Original Name : Иван Кокорин

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Сергей Миллер

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Oleg Gushchin

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Александра Чичкова

Gender : Female

Character Name :

Original Name : Александр Устюгов

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Сергей Рудзевич

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Елена Коллегова

Gender : Female

Character Name :

Original Name : Сергей Угрюмов

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Тимофей Трибунцев

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Александр Аблязов

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Александр Ефимов

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Михаил Солодко

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Mikhail Lukashov

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Александр Наумов

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Кирилл Петров

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Filipp Martsevich

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Evgeniy Borisov

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Андрей Курилов

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Наталья Домерецкая

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Александр Семёнов

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Viktor Ananin

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Михаил Анисимов

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Ivan Litvinov

Gender : Male

Character Name :

Original Name : Кристина Бабушкина

Gender : Female

Reviews

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

2024-12-21

With the Nazis encroaching deeper into the USSR, the defenders mobilise a small unit to penetrate the enemy lines and try to find out just where they are storing their fuel and unloading their vast supply of tanks and other munitions. They've gathered enough intelligence to appreciate that if this squad can't get this information, then an enormous invasion will start for which they are ill-equipped to deal. The task is handed to the young "Travkin" (Igor Petrenko) and his half dozen soldiers and so they set off into the hornet's nest. On the face of it, this is just another wartime adventure where a tiny force is set to overcome overwhelming odds and do their own sort of "Dirty Dozen" style of thing. This is a bit more sophisticated than that, though, as it really does depict well just how young and inexperienced the young men, who were plunged into these truly hellish scenes, had to use what wits and guile they had to stay alive. Barely out of their teens, most of them, they must get used to the death around them but also to the acts of killing that are a new and fairly traumatic experience. It's these performances from the likes of Aleksey Panin and Artyom Semakin that really do ram home the brutality of their environment and at the random nature of warfare. Those that they encounter in frequent life-or-death situations are little older or more experienced, and just as terrified, as themselves. Sure, it's all a little propagandist but then weren't so many other movies made about WWII by the British and the Americans? This has much less of the gung-ho, ye-ha, to it - it does try to characterise the vulnerabilities of these young men, whilst also showing their strengths as individuals - and there are some light-hearted moments for us there - as well as their developing cohesiveness as a unit after an admittedly predictably rocky start. The production is all pretty standard but it has a certain freshness to it that carries it along and the ensemble deliver the spirit of petrified camaraderie quite effectively.