Aleksey SIDOROV
Алексей СИДОРОВ
Alekseï SIDOROV
Russia, 2018, 139mn 
fiction
T-34
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Т-34

 

 T-34 machine de guerre

 T-34

 
Directed by : Aleksey SIDOROV (Алексей СИДОРОВ)
Writing credits : Aleksey SIDOROV (Алексей СИДОРОВ)
 
Cast
Aleksandr PETROV (Александр ПЕТРОВ)
Viktor DOBRONRAVOV (Виктор ДОБРОНРАВОВ)
Irina STARSHENBAUM (Ирина СТАРШЕНБАУМ)
Pyotr SKVORTSOV (Пётр СКВОРЦОВ)
Artiom BYSTROV (Артем БЫСТРОВ)
Anton SHURTSOV (Антон ШУРЦОВ)
Semyon TRESKUNOV (Семён ТРЕСКУНОВ)
 
Cinematography : Mikhail MILASHIN (Михаил МИЛАШИН)
Production design : Konstantin PAKHOTIN (Константин ПАХОТИН)
Produced by : Leonard BLAVATNIK (Леонард БЛАВАТНИК), Ruben DISHDISHIAN (Рубен ДИШДИШЯН), Nelly YARALOVA (Нелли ЯРАЛОВА ), Anton ZLATOPOLSKY (Антон ЗЛАТОПОЛЬСКИЙ)
Other persons :
Acteurs : Vinzenz KIEFER; Wolfgang CERNY
Production : «Марс Медиа» / "Mars Média", «Амедиа Продакшн» / "Amédia Production"
Film revenue in Russia : 36.221 million dollars
Spectators : 9 053 953
Release date in Russia : 01/01/2019
 
Sites : Allociné, IMDb
VOD or DVD release in France : 2019-09-10, Site

Awards :
Best Screenplay Aleksey SIDOROV , Golden Eagle awards, Moscow (Russia), 2020
Best directing Aleksey SIDOROV , Golden Eagle awards, Moscow (Russia), 2020

DVD with subtitles
Editor : ESC Editions et Distribution. 2018. Titre : T-34 Machine de guerre.
Sortie chez ce même éditeur le 29 septembre 2019 du combo DVD + Blu-Ray de ce film

Plot synopsis
In 1944, a group of Russian prisoner soldiers led by Nikolai Ivushkin managed to flee Germany in a half-destroyed T-34 tank.
Year 1941. In the battles of the Volokolamsk region the tank of the second lieutenant Ivouchkine destroys the regiment of tanks of captain Claus Jager and is itself destroyed. Two remaining Soviet tankers, Ivan Ivushkin and the mechanic Vassilionok, find themselves prisoners for three years.
In the spring of 1944, the Wermacht general staff entrusted the ace of the armored divisions, Jager, with the command of the Ordfur polygon to make it a training center for elite armored vehicles, targeting new T-34s recovered from the front. Jager and Ivushkin then meet for the second time. The Soviet tanker, despite the opposition of his comrades and the clandestine organization of the camp, agrees to lead the group of prisoners destined to be "cannon fodder" on the T-34s.
On D-Day, the high command of the general staff arrives at the polygon, but nothing goes as planned: Ivushkin takes advantage of the opportunity to carry out his minutely prepared flight. Thanks to the heroism of his comrades and the confusion in the German troops, the Soviet tankers found themselves free. In front of them the German campaign which escaped the war and 350 km to the Czech border, and on their heels a dozen "Panthers" tanks commanded by one of the best Reich tankers, Claus Jager.
 

Commentaries and bibliography
Разбираем 12 фильмов о войне, снятых в РФ и Украине после 2014 года [Films tournés en Russie et Ukraine après 2014], Anton DOLIN, Radio Dolin, 2022
How Russian Cinema Dehumanized Ukrainians and Laid the Ground for Today's War Crimes, Illia GLADSHTEIN, ukraineworld.org, 2022
Les dix films soviétiques et russes les plus spectaculaires dédiés aux chars d'assaut, Igor ROZIN, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2021
T-34 machine de guerre : critique de film et test Blu-ray, Jean-Jacques CORRIO, Critique Film, 2019
Aleksei Sidorov: T-34 (2019), Denise J. YOUNGBLOOD, Kinokultura, 2019
Алексей Сидоров: «Это не я сделал «Т-34», а «Т-34» сделал меня», Иван КУДРЯВЦЕВ, Interview, filmpro.ru, 2019
RUSSIA BEYOND : Cinq films russes sortis 2019 que vous devez à tout prix regarder, IOULIA CHAMPOROVA, RUSSIA BEYOND, 2019
Un film de guerre patriotique bat des records aux guichets en Russie [T-34 machine de guerre], lesoleil.com, 2019
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- War in contemporary Russian cinema, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023
- International Film Festival of India : IFFI, Goa (India), 2021
- Golden Eagle awards, Moscow (Russia), 2020
- Shangai International Film Festival, Shangai (China), 2019
- VOD or DVD release in France of the film:, Different cities (France), 2019
- Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 2019
- Russian Film Week in London, London (United Kingdom), 2019

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