Road to Berlin

Unrated

5/26/20151h 22m

Theatrical Release (US)

Overview:

Based on a novella by the well-known Soviet writer, Emmanuil Kazakevich "Two in the Steppe" and the war diaries of Konstantin Simonov. It's the summer of 1942, communications officer Ogarkov and private Dzhurabaev are fighting their way through the German encirclement. Finding themselves in difficult situations, they learn to trust one another, becoming true friends in the process.

Director:

Sergei Popov

Status:

Released

Language:

Russian

Buget:

$3,800,000.00

Revenue:

$488,569.00

Key words:

strangeness
male bonding
great patriotic war

Cast

Yura Borisov

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Sergey Ogarkov, Lt.

Amir Abdykalov

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Dzhurbaev

Maksim Demchenko

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Sinyaev

Mariya Karpova

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Mariya

Andrey Deryugin

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Artem Lebedev

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Aleksandr Novik

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Igor Khripunov

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Khromov

Grigory Kalinin

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captain Kovalev

Lidiya Omutnykh

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paramedic

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Reviews (1)

PE
Patrick E. Abe
Written 7 year(s) ago
7
In 1942, a young Lieutenant is serving as a dispatch rider, carrying orders from army headquarters to outlying units. He and other riders pause at a village, which comes under enemy attack. Confused and reeling from the sudden violence, he fails to find a unit under attack, which is surrounded and wiped out. He is arrested, stripped of rank, and quickly sentenced to death by firing squad. He tries to appeal to his superiors, but is thrown into a dugout prison, guarded by a central Asian soldier. He narrowly escapes the firing squad when the Germans overrun the base, and he flees with his very reluctant guard. Wandering from place to place, trying to avoid Germans, the two become comrades-in-arms, when they are recruited to take a village held by the Germans. But duty is duty for his guard, and they continue on their journey to headquarters, encountering many village-level people and places. It's an episodic movie, which leads to an interesting ending in Berlin, years later. 7/10