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Hollywood is known for riddling military movies with technical errors, but from “Full Metal Jacket” to “Stripes,” the movie industry gets it right with plenty of quotable military movies. Here are WATM’s picks for 32 of the best ever: 1. “I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for 12 hours.
Gritty war movies focusing on realism and the replication of the traumatic conditions that our soldiers fought in have been popular for the past decade and a half, but THE most gritty and awful fighting of WW2 has been inexplicably ignored by mainstream filmmakers: the Soviet front.
Fortress of War (festival title: The Brest Fortress; Russian: Брестская крепость, romanized: Brestskaya krepost) is a 2010 Russian-Belarusian war film recounting the June 1941 defense of Brest Fortress against invading Wehrmacht forces in the opening stages of Operation Barbarossa, Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union ...
This Russian-Belarusian war film is an impressively detailed account of the siege of Brest Fortress in June 1941, one of the first conflicts in Operation Barbarossa (Hitler's surprise invasion of the Soviet Union).
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- TRO, Central Partnership, Belarusfilm
- Aleksandr Kott
Feb 23, 2012 · The 29-day siege of the Russian fortress at Brest is, at least outside the old Soviet Union, a largely forgotten piece of Second World War heroism against the odds.
- Alexander Kott
Film Review: Fortress of War, 2010 Yes, this Russian WWII film is rather chest-beatingly propagandistic, but it remains excellent, nonetheless. Whilst there's very much an ensemble cast, who, by and large, act extremely well, the story is presented as if being recalled by one of the film's younger protagonists, in later life.
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Nov 11, 2010 · Overview. The film covers the heroic defence of the Brest Fortress, which was attacked during the first strike of German invaders on June 22 1941. The story describes the events of the first days of the defence, including the three main resistance zones, headed by the regiment commander, Pyotr Mikhailovich Gavrilov, the commissar Efim ...
