Posledniy bronepoezd (2006)

User Rating:

5.6/10   

Director:

Zinovi Roizman

Writers:

Leonid Porokhnya (writer)
Zinovi Roizman (writer)

Genre:

Action | History | War

Cast

Andrey Panin	...	Lesorub
Andrei Sokolov	...	Hermann
Yekaterina Rednikova	...	Sonya
Marina Aleksandrova	...	Toma
Ivan Kokorin	...	Lazar
Denis Nikiforov	...	Teplo
Oleg Korchikov	...	Fadeyev
Anatoly Kot	...	Giryavoi
Aleksandr Tyutin	...	Maltsev
Igor Sigov	...	Kluge
Andrei Olefirenko	...	Serpen
Dmitri Mulyar	...	Shcherban
Yevgeni Nikitin	...	Yakhontov
Boris Khimichev	...	Railwayman
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Igor Filchenkov
Dmitri Glazachev
Andrei Golubev
Gennadi Gotovchits
Vladimir Gritsevsky
Andrei Karako
Dzhulyetta Kazakevich
Sergei Lagutenko
Valeri Losovsky
Denis Nikitik
Vasili Nitsko
Ivan Novitsky
Aleksandr Pavlov
Ivan Pavlov
Aleksei Razmakhov
Aleksandr Sutskover
Anatoli Terpitsky
Oleg Tkachyov
Viktor Vasilyev
Sergei Zdoronkov
Sergei Zygmantovich

Also Known As:

The Last Armoured Train (International: English title)

Runtime:

208 min

Country:

Russia | Belarus

Language:

Russian

Color:

Color

Company:

BelPartner TV

The Last Armored Train

World War 2, in the early stages of Operation Barbarossa, the Third Reich commandeered a special force called "Brandenburger". An Elite formation of Paratroopers, not unlike todays Navy Seals, Green Barets, Spetznatz etc. The mission of this particular Paratrooper unit is to size river bridges behind the soviet lines, before the retreating Soviet Army can destroy them. However, a Russian armored Train in their sector remains to keep a thorn in their side. Where the whole Russian front line seems to collapse in the eve of the fascist juggernaut, this Armored Train must be eliminated at all costs. I really enjoyed the computer enhanced graphics in the first quarter of the movie, seeing German Gliderplanes coming down on the unsuspecting Russian defenders. Also special Branderburger teams dressed in Russian uniforms trying to terminate any Russian communication Officers. Usually this ploy keeps being successful a number of times in the row. Until they are being met be a few individual Russian Soldiers from very different backgrounds, consolidating in resistance around the Armored Train. The action scenes are breathtakingly amazing, the weaponry chosen by historical refined experts. It works all very well together. Never seen 44 mm Anti Tank Guns (A typical standart AT weapon at this period) in action before. Really didn't know how they operated and worked in action. The action scenes with the AT guns are very good. The only drawback in this movie was the Hollywood predicability ,starting in the last third of this film. Russian movie makers are falling here in the same trap as most Hollywood films, using Formula's. The end felt very formulated indeed.