T-34 (movie)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | T-34 |
| Original title | T-34 |
| Country of production | Russia |
| original language | Russian |
| Publishing year | 2018 |
| length | 139 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Aleksey Sidorov |
| script | Aleksey Sidorov |
| production | Ruben Dishdishyan Leonard Blavatnik Anton Zlatopolsky Nikita Mikhalkov Leonid Vereshagin Nelly Yaralova |
| music | Vadim Maevsky Aleksander Turkunov Ivan Burlyaev Dmitriy Noskov |
| camera | Mikhail Milashin |
| cut | Dimitrij Korabelnikow |
| occupation | |
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T-34 is a 2018 Russian war and action film .
action
In the fall of 1941, the young sub-lieutenant Nikolay Ivushkin came to the front straight from training. He was given the task of using the only remaining tank in his battalion , a T-34 , to defend a small village just outside Moscow against a number of advancing German Panzer IIIs . After shooting down several German tanks, his own tank is also hit and Ivushkin is captured.
Three years later the Red Army has come threateningly close to the borders of the German Reich . Standartenführer Klaus Jäger, who was in command of the armored unit destroyed by Ivushkin, suggests first Heinz Guderian and then Heinrich Himmler special training for the recruits of the 12th SS Panzer Division "Hitler Youth" , namely a battle against a captured Russian tank of the latest design T-34/85 . This is to be driven by prisoners of war Soviet tank soldiers who, however, will not receive any ammunition for this mission. Himmler agrees.
Jäger went to a concentration camp in Thuringia in order to look for a suitable Soviet tank commander there, and recognized Ivushkin as the officer who had hit him with his tank at the time. Ivushkin, who, despite torture, refused to give his name and rank during these three years, was transferred to the camp after seven attempts to escape to be killed there. At first he refuses to accept Jäger's suggestion and only gives in when Jäger threatens to shoot the Russian translator Anya.
Ivushkin selects his new crew from among the prisoners in the camp, including his former driver Stepan Vasilyonok, who happens to be here too. There are also the loader Serafim Ionov and the gunner Demyan Volchok. At first the soldiers are skeptical, but then they trust their new commanding officer. The men get the order from Jäger to repair the tank, but first to get the dead crew out of it. They found four armor-piercing projectiles and two HE shells in the tank that had been overlooked by the Germans. Under the pretext of wanting to bury the fallen, they manage to hide the six cartridges on the tank training area. Ivushkin plans to flee with the tank and make his way into Czechoslovakia .
During the time the tank is being repaired, Ivushkin and Anya get closer. Anya warns Nikolay that the Germans laid mines around the training area to prevent the tank crew from escaping. She also asks to be taken away, as she would rather die by his side than remain in captivity. Ivushkin refuses, however.
While the men secretly fetch the tank ammunition from their hiding place on the day of the battle and get the T-34/85 ready for action, Anya sneaks into Jäger's office with a duplicate key , steals a map from his desk and leaves the camp around the Watching tanks on the road.
Because of the mines, Ivushkin decides to break through the main gate of the site with the tank. At the beginning of the battle, the men create a curtain of smoke as a distraction before they shoot down one of the German V Panther armored vehicles. In the general confusion, they manage to approach the German observation tower and destroy it with an explosive shell. Most of the people die in it, only Jäger and Guderian escape at the last moment. After the Soviet tank had smashed the luxury cars of the Nazis in the parking lot, the men break through the main gate with it as planned and flee on the street with no mines. They meet Anya at a bus stop, who hands Ivushkin the stolen card and is now taken away.
In a small town, the refugees first get food, civilian clothes and diesel fuel and burn their prisoner clothes before they continue their journey. In the meantime, Jäger had roadblocks erected, but Ivushkin managed to bypass them cross-country with his tank. But Jäger does not give up. After a reconnaissance flight with a Fieseler Storch he can pick up the trail of the fugitives again and decides them in Klingenthal an ambush lay. However, Nikolay realizes the danger. After resting at a lake in the forest, he tells Anya to walk around the place and wait in a pasture. If the men do not show up by the next evening, she should make her way east on foot alone.
In Klingenthal, the men met four German panthers with their T-34/85 that night. They manage to destroy three of them, one after the other, seriously injuring Volchok. Now besides Ivushkin's T-34 there is only Jäger's Panther left. Both men open the commander's hatch on their tank. Hunter literally tosses Ivushkin a gauntlet . Ivushkin asks for a five-minute truce in order to be able to rescue the wounded Volchok.
The showdown finally takes place on a bridge at the end of the town . Both tanks are badly damaged and the T-34 loses a chain . Finally, Jäger falls from the bridge into the river with his panther. Ivushkin, Vasilyonok and Ionov set off on foot to the cattle pasture, carrying Volchok with them, and there they meet Anya.
During the credits you can see how the men are back home and go about their everyday activities there. Nikolay Ivushkin returns to his mother and introduces her to Anya, who is apparently pregnant.
production
The filming of T-34 took place between February 2016 and July 2017 in Russia and the Czech Republic . In the Kaluga oblast the village for the 1941 gambling scenes was built partly using real log houses from the period of the Second World War, dismantled and elsewhere there translocated had been. The main locations in the Czech Republic were the city center and the Loket bridge and Terezín , where the film was also shot on the site of the former Theresienstadt concentration camp . The scene with Heinrich Himmler was created in the circular library of Kačina Castle .
Some of the costumes came from the German company Theaterkunst .
Visual effects
In T-34 play Visual Effects and Computer Generated Imagery a major role. Bullet time is also used extensively in tank battles , which is why some critics compared the film stylistically with Matrix .
Performances and box office results
The official premiere took place in Russia on January 1, 2019. Around 9 million people saw the film in its first month, making it 2.2 billion rubles, almost four times the budget of 600 million rubles (approx. 8 million euros) in that period, making it the second most financially successful Russian film of all time . On the opening weekend, it grossed 713 million rubles, even more than any other Russian film.
The film was released in cinemas in Germany and Austria on January 6, 2019. It started in Switzerland on February 20 and 21, 2019; here a total of 466 people saw him in the cinema.
Reviews
The Dutch website www.filmvandaag.nl criticized the film's lack of historical reality and wrote that it was “a Russian version of the American films Rambo and Missing in Action from the 1980s”. The difference would be better camera work and the special effects. The actual escape is "an Exodus story with the T-34 as the staff of Moses".
n-tv.de described the T-34 as “captivating World War II action” and a film that is well worth seeing and “which never gets bored. As a spectator, you are excited and excited to see the showdown at the end of the film. "
The Moscow German newspaper ruled that T-34 was a “film without discordant tones and probing questions, but instead with an effective retelling of the old story” and wrote: “If you could choose, after 139 minutes you would be“ T-34 ” Russian".
Awards
T-34 was named best feature film in 2019 by the Association of Cinema and TV Producers (APKiT).
At the Jackie Chan Action Film Week 2019 in Datong , the film received the award for the best editing and a special jury award.
The National Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences of Russia nominated T-34 for a Golden Eagle Award in 13 of 15 possible categories . Aleksey Sidorov received both the award for the best director and for the best screenplay. The film was also recognized for the best visual effects.
DVD and Blu-ray publishing
In Germany, T-34 was released on October 2, 2019 by Tiberius Film under the title T-34 - The Duel on DVD , Blu-ray Disc and as video-on-demand . All variants offer the choice between the Russian original and the German dubbed version .
Others
The story of Soviet prisoners of war who steal a captured T-34 from a test site in order to flee with it was told in the 1965 Soviet film Zhavoronok .
The actors of Nikolay Ivushkin and Anya Yartseva, Alexander Petrov and Irina Starschenbaum , were also a couple privately at the time of shooting.
The steam locomotive 52 7620 seen in the film is owned by the Czech Club for Rail Transport History (KHKD) and was previously shown in the film The Last Train .
Web links
- T-34 in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official trailer (in German) on YouTube
- Film about the visual effects in T-34 on Vimeo
- Shooting of T-34 in Loket on YouTube
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for T-34 . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ^ The film "T-34" in Belgium on the website of the Russian Center for Science and Culture in Brussels
- ↑ Thomas Badtke: Captivating World War II action: "T-34" is a tank battle in the "Matrix" style on www.n-tv.de , October 1st, 2019
- ↑ Tino Künzel: War hero and film star: Experts on the Soviet T-34 tank on mdz-moskau.eu , February 3, 2019
- ↑ Patriotic tank film smashes Russian box office record on www.theguardian.com , January 9, 2019
- ↑ T-34 on cineimage.ch
- ↑ Sven de Graaf: Recensie T-34 on www.filmvandaag.nl, July 2, 2019
- ↑ Thomas Badtke: Captivating World War II action: "T-34" is a tank battle in the "Matrix" style on www.n-tv.de , October 1st, 2019
- ↑ Tino Künzel: War hero and film star: Experts on the Soviet T-34 tank on mdz-moskau.eu , February 3, 2019
- ↑ The winners of the Russian producers awards on www.ceetv.net, March 29, 2019
- ↑ Patrick Frater: Jackie Chan Reignites Action Film Week in China on variety.com , July 30, 2019
- ↑ "T-34" took two awards at the Jackie Chan Film Festival on gm-production.ru, July 31, 2019
- ↑ Wesley Lovell: Precursor: 18th Golden Eagle Nominations (2019) at www.cinemasight.com, December 26, 2019
- ↑ Shipenko won against Balagov, and Petrov won against himself: laureates of the Golden Eagle 2020 Prize announced on www.tellerreport.com, January 24, 2020
- ↑ Catalog / T on www.tiberiusfilm.de
- ↑ Zhavoronok in the Internet Movie Database
- ↑ Федор Бондарчук был против романа Петрова и Старшенбаум , sobesednik.ru , January 30, 2017 (Russian)
- ↑ Петров женится на Старшенбаум , dni.ru (Russian)