Panfilov's 28 Men

Nov 24, 2016

1h 45m

★ 6.8

Overview

USSR, November, 1941. Based on the account by Vasiliy Koroteev this is the story of Panifilov's Twenty-Eight, a group of twenty-eight Red Army soldiers commanded by General Ivan Panfilov, that stopped the advance on Moscow of a column of fifty-four Nazi tanks of the 11th Panzer Division for several days. Though lightly armed they fight tirelessly and defiantly, with uncommon bravery and unwavering dedication, to protect Moscow and their Motherland.

Genres

History

Action

Drama

War

Production Companies

Gaijin Entertainment

Lybian Palette

Panfilov's 28 Men Trailers

Cast

Musabek Sengirbaev

Azamat Nigmanov

Vasiliy Klochkov

Alexey Morozov

Serzhant Dobrobabin

Yakiv Kucherevskyi

Grigory Shemyakin, foreman

Oleg Fyodorov

Pavel Gundilovich

Aleksej Longin

Bondarenko

Dmitriy Girev

Alikbay Kosaev

Amadu Mamadakov

Lieutenant

Andrey Shalyopa

Natarov

Pavel Goncharov

Petrenko

Nikolay Klimchuk

Shepetkov

Vitaliy Kovalenko

Kryuchkov

Aleksandr Plaksin

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