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Belyy tigr (2012)
Interesting Movie
There are lots of ideas and themes that showed up early on in this movie that brought to mind one or another Marvel or DC movie. A (previously) ordinary tank crewman that somehow has acquired extraordinary powers of survival and an ability to somehow communicate with tanks. Mysterious Nazi super weapon with either supernatural powers or technology far beyond anything known at that time. I'm an American viewer who occasionally read comic books in my misspent youth, yet never seriously collected any, and has made a small effort to avoid movies made from comic books, unless someone else in my family is watching them on television. So to recognize these themes so quickly was a surprise.
But these comic book themes are seamlessly integrated into a movie that is better done than the Marvel and DC superhero movies. One of the major ways this movie is unlike the comic book movies is the straightforward way it plays out without hyperbola. Compared to American made, US Army-oriented movies such as as "The Longest Day", "A Bridge Too Far" or the series "Band of Brothers," the military, on the front and combat portions were more believable than "Captain America" or the battle scenes in "Wonder Woman." The one thing I can't address is the authenticity of the Red Army interactions between soldiers.
My biggest problem with the movie was the last scene showing Hitler rationalizing what the Nazis did. While it had a high-level connection as a rationalization for starting WW II it didn't otherwise connect to the characters involved. Had that scene been cut entirely it would have been a better movie. Also, that scene does nothing to guide us to answers about what finally happened to the white tiger tank or the Red Army soldier for whom destroying it had become a quest by the end of the movie.
When I saw it, it had subtitles.