Kalashnikov AK-47
TMDB 7.5
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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.
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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.
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Kalashnikov AK-47
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.
- Directors
- Konstantin Buslov
- Producers
- Sergei Bodrov, Konstantin Buslov, Alexander Dostal
- Cast and Characters
- Yura Borisov (Kalashnikov), Olga Lerman (Katya), Artur Smolyaninov (Engineer captain Lyutyy), Eldar Kalimulin (Zaytsev), Vitaliy Khaev (Major General Kurbatkin), Valeriy Barinov (Major General Degtyarev), Anatoliy Lobotskiy (Colonel Glukhov), Aleksey Vertkov (State security captain Lobov)
- Languages
- Russian, Italian