White Tiger (2012)

Original title

Белый тигр

Directed by

Karen Shakhnazarov

Genre

fantasy film, action film, war film, adventure film, historical film

Country

Russia

Runtime

1h 44m

Rated

NR

Rating

5.7 of 10 from 109 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Soviet tank commander is badly wounded in battle. After he recovers he becomes determined to find and destroy a ghostly German tank that the soldiers call the White Tiger. The military builds a special tank for him to hunt it down.

sombergrimobsessivemysteriousslow pacedatmosphericcontemplativebattle weary

What happens

White Tiger (Russian: Белый тигр, translit. Byeli tigr) is a 2012 Russian war film, directed by Karen Shakhnazarov and co-written with Aleksandr Borodyansky based on the novel The Tankman, or The White Tiger (Russian: Танкист, или “Белый тигр”, Tankist, ili "Byeli tigr") by Russian novelist Ilya Boyashov. The film is about a badly wounded Soviet tank commander on the Eastern Front of World War II who becomes obsessed with tracking down and destroying a mysterious, invincible German tank, which the Soviet troops call the "White Tiger". The Soviets design a new, more powerful T-34 tank and assign the tank commander the job of destroying the White Tiger. The film was selected as the Russian entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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