On May 8, 2020, the eve of the 75th anniversary of the Great Victory, the TV show "Rzhev" on the channel "Russia", whose director Igor Kopylov became the director. The plot and interesting facts about the film - in the material 24cm.
The script of the picture was created on the story of "redeeming blood" Vyacheslav Kondratieva, who was a participant in combat events under Rzhev and handed the horrors of the exhausting battle, which took half of the battle's participants.
Release date in Russia - December 5, 2019.
Plot
In the center of the plot of the military drama "Rzhev" - the history of the defense of the village of Ovsyannikovo during the Great Patriotic War. After the order to keep positions to the place of hostilities arrive the head of the special department, which is entrusted to identify the traitor.
Fierce fights lead to the collision of the interests of an individual and command trying to save the soldiers and bring them out of the strike. Thanks to the courage of soldiers who defended the frontiers of Rzhev's city, fascist troops were not transferred to Stalingrad, which broke the course of the war.
Actors
The following actors are involved in the main roles of the film "Rzhev":
- Sergey Zharkov - Rotta commander;
- Ivan Bataryv - Cardsers;
- Alexander Bukharov - Sysoev Sergeant;
- Igor Garbuzov - Zhurkin;
- Arseny Semenov - Politroh;
- Grigory Nekrasov - Senior Lieutenant Rykov;
- Alexander Aravshkin - Petrovich;
- Ruslan Mikolenko - Unter-Officer.
- The film also filmed:
- Oleg Gayanov;
- Dan Rosin;
- Andrei Korovnychenko;
- Roman fungi;
- Peter Logachev;
- Evgeny Lyamin.
Interesting Facts
- The exact number of victims of Rzhevskaya meat grinder is unknown. There is evidence that losses amounted to more than 1 million 160 thousand people. This is the first cinematic project dedicated to the Rzhevsky battle, which for a long time has grown the truth.
- The film covers one day.
- There are no female roles in the picture.
- The creators did not establish age limit, assuming that the picture should look at a wide audience.
- Historical similarities helped shooting in weather conditions approximate by the time the temperature dropped to -28 degrees.
- The shooting was planned to spend on the territory of the village of Ovsyannikovo, but after the war they did not restore.
- As a location, the territory of the Rzhevian landfill near St. Petersburg was chosen. Especially for filming, the village was built, which was collected from abandoned houses of the Tver region.
- In the battle scenes of the film, special effects were not used, which added a film of realism.
- The director of the picture did not immediately agreed to the offer of producers Inessa Yurchenko and Sergey Shcheglov to become a director. Since the plot of the film is unfolding in winter, then the director had doubts about how it would look visually.
- Reviews of the film were contradictory. Critical comments concerned stamps. "Here you have a drinking commander, giving cruel orders, and a stupid political officer who does not have any authority, and a criminal hero, and a cruel disquisite ..." - marked in the reviews of Andrei Sidorchuk. Edition "Arguments and Facts". Positive reviews argued that the picture will enter the Golden Film of Military Cinema.