1942: Unknown Battle
(2019)
★ 7.7 IMDb · 181 votes
Year: 2019
Runtime: 113 мин
Country: Russia
Director: Игорь Копылов
Cast: Сергей Жарков, Иван Батарев, Олег Гаянов, Arseny Semenov, Александр Горбатов, Александр Бухаров, Григорий Некрасов, Игорь Грабузов, Александр Аравушкин, Dan Rozin
Plot
WWII 1942: Rzhev, USSR. Stuck in a crucial strategical position, a small company from the Red Army does whatever it takes to fend off the Nazis.
After several months of fierce fighting, the Red Army finally knocks the enemy out of the village of Ovsyannikovo, which costs huge losses - only a third of the personnel remain from the company. Exhausted to the limit, the soldiers are waiting for reinforcements, but an order comes from the headquarters - to keep the village at all costs, and this is tantamount to a death sentence. The company commander faces a difficult choice - either to lose the remnants of the company, following a meaningless command order, or to withdraw his people from mortar fire, but at the same time leave their positions and go to the tribunal for violating the order. In extremely realistic details, only one fierce battle is shown, in which, like in a drop of water, the whole truth about the war is reflected.