The Cadets (2005)

Original title

Kursanty

Directed by

Andrei Kavun

Genre

drama television series, war television series

Country

Russia

Length

1 season, 10 episodes

Rating

4.5 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of young men train to become Soviet artillery officers. The series follows their lives as they prepare for combat at the Battle of Stalingrad.

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What happens

The Cadets (Russian: Курсанты, romanized: Kursanty) is a 2004 Russian TV series about a class of Soviet artillery officer cadets going through training prior to their commissioning and entry into the Battle of Stalingrad during World War II (The Great Patriotic War). The ten parts series are based on the memoirs of Pyotr Todorovsky and directed by Andrei Kavun. The US DVD release of the series was done as two volumes with two discs in each volume. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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