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The weapon that would change the world
A Russian military propaganda film about the tank commander Kalashnikov, severely injured in battle in 1941. The accident leaves him incapacitated and unable to return to the front line. While recovering in the hospital, he begins creating the initial sketches of what will become one of the world’s most legendary weapons. A self-taught inventor is only 29 when he develops the now iconic assault riffle — the AK-47. Shot in occupied Crimea.Read moreLess
A Russian military propaganda film about the tank commander Kalashnikov, severely injured in battle in 1941. The accident leaves him incapacitated and unable to return to the front line. While recovering in the hospital, he begins creating the initial sketches of what will become one of the world’s most legendary weapons. A self-taught inventor is only 29 when he develops the now iconic assault riffle — the AK-47. Shot in occupied Crimea.
The story
A Russian military propaganda film about the tank commander Kalashnikov, severely injured in battle in 1941. The accident leaves him incapacitated and unable to return to the front line. While recovering in the hospital, he begins creating the initial sketches of what will become one of the world’s most legendary weapons. A self-taught inventor is only 29 when he develops the now iconic assault riffle — the AK-47. Shot in occupied Crimea.
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Yura BorisovKalashnikov
Olga LermanKatya
Artur SmolyaninovEngineer captain Lyutyy
Eldar KalimulinZaytsev
Vitaliy KhaevMajor General Kurbatkin
Valeriy BarinovMajor General Degtyarev
Anatoliy LobotskiyColonel Glukhov
Aleksey VertkovState security captain Lobov
Dmitriy BogdanEngineer Major Sudaev
Maksim BityukovKazakov
Armen ArushanyanSaakyants
Valery AfanasyevChief artillery marshal VoronovExplore the crew
- Producer
- Konstantin Buslov
- Producer
- Sergei Bodrov
- Screenplay
- Anatoli Usov
- Screenplay
- Alexey Borodachev
- Screenplay
- Sergei Bodrov
- Director
- Konstantin Buslov
- Director of Photography
- Levan Kapanadze
- Editor
- Margarita Smirnova
- Director of Photography
- Maksim Shinkorenko
- Producer
- Alexander Dostal
- Original Music Composer
- Sergey Stern