2002 · war · drama
The Star
Directed by Nikolay Lebedev1h 37m2002
In the summer of 1944, the Nazi Armies prepare a massive Tank Division named 'Viking" for the offensive on occupied Russian land. The Russian Army's special group of seven snipers named "Zvezda" is sent for a reconnaissance operation behind the enemy lines in the back of the Nazi Tank Division. Two previous Russian groups never came back. The seven Russians know that they are going to an almost certain Death for the sake of Victory.
Our read: The Star (2002) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded war · drama entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, extreme war / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- extreme
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