A war drama set during the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, in which Soviet troops held on to a border stronghold for nine days.
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★★★★★
I like this movie considering all the crap films made in my country for last 20 years. From my view it has almost no propaganda (ok, I'm brainwashed already). Narrator probably is telling less that he could, so some plot points are not that clear, but the film...
★★★★★
If you read my title, you might consider the comparison perhaps the most famous American world war epic odd, but I'll explain that shortly.
To get the necessities out of the way--the film describes the fall of the Brest Fotress in far western Belarus (or Byel...
★★★★★
In case you've come upon this movie by accident, I'd suggest you go ahead and watch it, and then return return back to read the reviews.
The Brest Fortress pushes war movies to a completely different level of realism, poetry and emotional force. It is so visc...
★★★★★
War movies based on true events are always something special because you can feel the suffering and the absurdity of war. Most of World War II movies are about well known battles like Normandy, Obama Beach, The Ardennes and so on, but I prefer watching more un...
★★★★★
A convincing and brutal drama about the war's ugly and scary face, which is as much poignant as it is riveting and engrossing from start to finish.
The doomed fortress of the border town of Brest was built a hundred years before the first onset of German dece...
