Tankers (film)

Indestructible (Russian: Несокрушимый, romanized: Nesokrushimyy) is a 2018 Russian war film directed by Konstantin Maksimov. It was developed under the working title Tankers (Russian: Танкисты, romanized: Tankisty).

Indestructible
Film poster
Directed byKonstantin Maksimov
Produced byAleksey Pimanov
Olga Pogodina
Denis Anisimov
Screenplay byValeriya Baikeyeva
Konstantin Maksimov
Starring
Music byOleg Volyando
CinematographyElena Ivanova
Edited byValeriya Baykeeva
Konstantin Mazur
Production
company
Oda Film
Pimanov and partners
Mosfilm
Distributed by20th Century Fox CIS
Release date
  • 25 October 2018 (2018-10-25)
Running time
85 minutes
CountryRussia
LanguageRussian
Budget300 million RUB
Box office258 620 279 RUB

The film is based on the real story of the feat of the crew of a Soviet KV-1 tank under the command of Semyon Konovalov, which took part in an unequal battle on 13 July 1942 and destroyed 16 tanks, two armored vehicles and eight other vehicles from enemy forces in the area of the village of Nizhnemityakin, Tarasovsky District, Rostov Oblast.[1]

On 9 September 2018, a special private screening of the film for military personnel of the Tamanskaya and Kantemirov Divisions took place; the event took place on Tanker's Day.[2]

The film was released in Russia on 25 October 2018 by 20th Century Fox CIS.[3]

Plot

The film opens with the tank being hit and the commander, Semyon Konovalov, injured. He is ordered to join the next assault where he and his crew destroy a German reconnaissance vehicle.

German reinforcements arrive with tanks and they open fire, injuring Konovalov's wife.

Cast
  • Andrey Chernyshov as Captain Semyon Konovalov, tank commander[4]
  • Vladimir Epifantsev as Sergeant Siitov, gunner
  • Oleg Fomin as Junior lieutenant Rykov, Senior Military Technician
  • Olga Pogodina as Pavla Chumak, an production engineer, Semyon Konovalov’s wife[4]
  • Sergey Gorobchenko as Major Vladimir Krotov, Deputy Political Officer of the Battalion
  • Nikolai Dobrynin as Basich, a legless surgeon
  • Vasily Sedykh as Junior sergeant Bogdan Shinkevich, loader
  • Vladimir Kochetkov as Gubkin, radio operator-gunner
  • Vasily Stepanov as Cantor, translator[5]
  • Dmitry Zolotukhin as Sable
  • Oleg Chudnitsov as Armen
  • Markus Kunze
  • Nikita Salopin
  • Anton Eskin
  • Evgeniy Zelenskiy as Drozdov, tank commander
  • Lera Gorin
  • Aleksandr Tuarminskiy
  • Olga Kavalay-Aksonov
  • Maria Arnaut as Galya
  • Yaroslav Khimchenko
  • Dmitriy Sokolov as Krotov, a radio operator
  • Sergey Rublev
  • Ivan Kozhevnikov
  • Roman Senkov as Sergeant Cheryshev, tankman
  • Yuriy Balitskiy as Ratnikov, tankman

Production

Filming (under the working title Tankers)[6] began on 15 September 2016 in Mozhaysky District, Moscow Oblast, and took place with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation and the Russian Military Historical Society.

The film actively used computer special effects. More than 150 shots with computer graphics were created by the Russian studio Carboncore-vfx.[7]

Box office

In Russia, Tankers was a box office success.

Criticism

The film contains a large number of inconsistencies related to the true story of Konovalov's feat and other historical inaccuracies. So, for example, in the film there is military equipment that does not correspond to the period of the described events: props - layout tiered vehicles stylized as German tanks PzKpfw IVH, which appeared a year later than the action of the film - in 1943, and Soviet tanks T-34-85, which appeared only in 1944. The film received corresponding ratings from critics.

See also

References
  1. Anna Bagrova (17 April 2018). "105th Film Market. Fox Company Presentation". Film Distribution Bulletin. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
  2. Konstantin Kokoveshnikov (10 September 2018). ""As if plunged into 1942 ": on the occasion of Tanker's Day, the military organized a closed show of the film" Indestructible "". Zvezda. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
  3. Pavel Kutarenko (8 September 2018). "The film about the exploit of tankers "Indestructible" will be released in October". Zvezda. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
  4. Alena Slastenina (29 August 2018). "Conditions were close to combat - Andrei Chernyshov spoke about the filming of the movie "Unbreakable"". Zvezda. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
  5. Tatyana Zimnaya (13 April 2017). "Olga Pogodina about actor Stepanova: "We are waiting for Vasya on the set"". Komsomolskaya Pravda. Retrieved 14 September 2018.
  6. "The results of the Russian pavilion at the 71st Cannes International Film Festival and Film Market". kinobusiness.com. 1 June 2018. Retrieved 13 September 2018.
  7. "UNEADABLE - CARBONCORE". carboncore.ru. Retrieved 19 September 2018.
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