Kalashnikov AK-47

Feb 20, 2020

1h 45m

★ 7.4

The weapon that would change the world

Overview

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.

Genres

War

History

Drama

Production Companies

R.B. Productions

Etalon-Film

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Cast

Kalashnikov

Yura Borisov

Katya

Olga Lerman

Engineer captain Lyutyy

Artur Smolyaninov

Zaytsev

Eldar Kalimulin

Major General Kurbatkin

Vitaliy Khaev

Major General Degtyarev

Valeriy Barinov

Colonel Glukhov

Anatoliy Lobotskiy

State security captain Lobov

Aleksey Vertkov

Engineer Major Sudaev

Dmitriy Bogdan

Kazakov

Maksim Bityukov

Saakyants

Armen Arushanyan

Chief artillery marshal Voronov

Valery Afanasyev

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