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Director:
Nikolai Dostal
Writer:
Eduard Volodarsky (writer)
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Release Date:
20 September 2004 (Russia) more
Genre:
Action | Drama | War more
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User Comments:
Challenging story with excellent acting, direction, and production. more (7 total)

Cast

  (Series Cast overview, first billed only)
Aleksey Serebryakov ... Penalty Battalion Cmdr. Vasilii Tverdokhlebov
Yuri Stepanov ... Antip "Kulak" Glymov
Aleksandr Bashirov ... Stirah
Iliya Kovrizhnykh ... Tzukerman
Aleksei Zharkov ... Lykov
Roman Madyanov ... Kharchenko
Dmitri Nazarov ... Otetz (padre) Mikhail
Andrei Smolyakov ... Baukin
Viktor Suprun ... Shlykov
Vasili Mishchenko ... Svetlichniy
Andrei Merzlikin ... Bredounov
Olga Kalashnikova ... Sveta
Aleksei Oshurkov ... Shilkin
Timofei Tribuntsev ... Choudilin (as T. Tribuntsev)
Maxim Drozd ... Boulyga
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Penal Battalion (International: English title)
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Runtime:
Russia:550 min | Finland:535 min (11 parts)
Country:
Russia
Language:
Russian
Color:
Color
Certification:
Finland:K-15 (self applied) (TV rating)
Company:
MakDos more

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Challenging story with excellent acting, direction, and production., 19 June 2006
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Author: bobovnikova from United States

Many experienced and excellent actors mixed together in an ongoing plot of an untold part of world war II on the eastern front. Characters well portrayed and unforgettable. One episode leaves you wishing for the next. Pay attention to the closing credits were the thousands of Shtrafbat battalions are listed. An untold story involving hundreds of thousands of individuals. Sometimes brutal, sometimes romantic, always filled with real people and dialog. Produced with excellent sets and camera work. Heroes and villains, criminals and priests, patriots and traitors. Portrait of people struggling to survive and overcome a most terrible time. I wish to buy a copy for my own collection so to be able to enjoy the series repeatedly.

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