A Russian Battle Royale

 Region Coding: All-Region

Format: NTSC

AKA: Svolochi

Director: Aleksandr Atanesyan

Released: 2006(Russia)

Genre: Action; Drama; War

Plot: A "Hitlerjugend" kind of story, set in the Soviet Union during the Second World War, based on a fictitious story from the eponymous book by Vladimir Kunin. The Red Army has a gang of juveniles for a clandestine operation against the Nazis. The boys are trained by a dangerous crime lord at a top secret boot camp. They are doomed to die in the mission, or after it, just to keep it a secret.

Synopsis: Based on a true story of teen criminals in the Soviet Union during World War 2. As alternative to prison they are trained in the mountains of Armenia for a mission in Nazi Germany to blow up an important installation. All but one boy dies. Most die during the rigorous training & some die in Germany. It is still unsure what is exactly true or not according to what faction one speaks with, but surely the fact that at the awards ceremony it was a heated moment amongst believers and non believers that the event ever took place.

Cast: Andrei Panin, Andrei Krasko, Sergei Rychenkov

Running Time: 110 (approx)

Languages: Russian

Subtitles: English

Features: Anamorphic 16:9 Widescreen,Dolby Digital 5.1,trailers

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