The Brest Fortress (2010)

Original title

Брестская крепость

Directed by

Alexander Kott

Genre

drama film, war film, action film, historical film

Country

Belarus, Russia

Runtime

2h 20m

Rated

16

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 186 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In June 1941, Nazi forces attack the Soviet Brest Fortress. A 12-year-old boy watches as Soviet soldiers and commanders defend the fortress in three separate zones against a long siege.

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What happens

Fortress of War (festival title: The Brest Fortress; Russian: Брестская крепость, romanized: Brestskaya krepost) is a 2010 Russian-Belarusian war film recounting the June 1941 defense of Brest Fortress against invading Wehrmacht forces in the opening stages of Operation Barbarossa, Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II. Events are narrated from the perspective of 12-year-old Sasha Akimov, centering on three resistance zones holding out against the protracted German siege. The defending forces are led by regiment commander Major Pyotr Gavrilov (44th Rifle Regiment of the Red Army), with Regimental Commissar Yefim Fomin (84th Rifle Regiment of the Red Army), and the head of the 9th Frontier Outpost, Lieutenant Andrey Mitrofanovich Kizhevatov. The film makers claim that the plot is as close as possible to historical fact, and that the Brest Fortress Museum supervised the plot thoroughly. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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