The Star (2002 film)

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The Star
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Directed by	Nikolai Lebedev
Produced by	Karen Shakhnazarov
Written by	Aleksandr Borodyansky Yevgeni Grigoryev Emmanuil G. Kazakevich (short story) Nikolai Lebedev
Starring	Igor Petrenko Artyom Semakin Aleksei Panin Aleksei Kravchenko
Music by	Aleksei Rybnikov
Cinematography	Yuri Nevsky
Editing by	Lidiya Milioti Eduard Yermolin
Distributed by	Mosfilm
Release date(s)	2002 (Russia)
Running time	97 min.
Country	Russia
Language	Russian

The Star (Russian: Звезда, translit. Zvezda) is a 2002 Russian film directed by Nikolai Lebedev, a large modern project of Mosfilm. It is based on a short story of the same name by Emmanuil Kazakevich, about a group of Soviet scouts working behind enemy lines during Operation Bagration in World War II.

Aleksei Kravchenko won a government award for his role in this film.

[edit] Plot

A team of Soviet scouts is sent behind enemy lines to find the location of the German armor forces. The Soviets wait until night, and open up with an artillery barrage. As the guns fire, the team advances. The team successfully slips behind enemy lines. Many dramatic scenes follow. In one, a German soldier is captured and interrogated. In another, the team calls an airstrike on German positions, causing great damage and casualties. One man even kills a German soldier with his pistol during the air attack. This tract of scenes finds the main characters successfully finding the location of the German armor. They are eventually cornered in a barn, with Germans attacking on all sides. During the battle, the team leader sends a radio message, telling the location of enemy armor. The team is eventually overrun and wiped out.

[edit] External links

• The Star at the Internet Movie Database
• The Star at Allmovie
• Screenshots

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