at the innocent inmate translator Anya and starts counting down to five. The latter initially refuses, so the former pulls out his pistol and takes aim. An Offer You Can't Refuse: Klaus visits an imprisoned Nikolay with the proposition to have the latter train German tank crews.Almost Dead Guy After saving his friends by firing his captured Panther's gun, Volchok is physically unable to reload his tank due to his wounds, Heroic Willpower be damned.Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene: The most poignant one being long after their explosive prison break and far from immediate danger, the crew take a break in the forest at night while Stepan sings a Russian ode around their campfire.Klaus' Panther has an experimental Sperber FG 1250 infra-red nightvision device installed on his commander's cupola that he uses to spot and engage the T-34-85 during the night battle in the town. Ace Custom: Averted with the Soviet crew who operate relatively normal T-34 tanks.Seeing an opportunity to escape, Nikolay hatches a daring plan with his new crew, alongside the camp's resident translator inmate, Anya Yartseva, but pulling off the prison break of a lifetime under the watchful eyes of the Nazis isn't going to be as easy as it sounds.Ĭompare with the American equivalent, Fury (2014). Nikolay reluctantly agrees to help the German officer and is forced to assemble a crew to repair and operate a newer model of their previous tank, a T-34-85 recently captured from the front. Seeing potential in using experienced Russian tankers to help teach the enemy's tactics to their newer Panzer cadets, he finds a mugshot of a familiar face and eventually discovers Nikolay in a POW camp. In the aftermath of the vicious tank battle, Nikolay is wounded by an equally-battered Klaus and is eventually captured by the Germans.įast forward to late 1944, a promoted Klaus is assigned by the German High Command to produce a tank-training program to help repel the Russian advance in the East. Finding themselves outnumbered and outgunned, the Russians lay in ambush against a German Panzer battalion lead by a cunning SS officer, Klaus Jäger (Vinzenz Kiefer).

In the months following the opening stages of the German invasion of the Soviet Union, a lone T-34-76 crew lead by junior tank commander Nikolay Ivushkin (Alexander Petrov) is assigned to a small detachment of Soviet infantry to slow the German onslaught at the outskirts of Moscow. T-34 is a 2018 Russian war movie directed by Aleksey Sidorov.

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