White Tiger

Белый тигр (2012)

Timing: 1:45 (105 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

2012-05-03

Country

Russia

Production

Mosfilm, Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, First Channel, Kuryer Film Studio, CGF Films

Genre

Action, Adventure, Fantasy, War

Budget

$6 100 000

Revenue

$3 427 641

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Director

Karen Shakhnazarov

Actors

Aleksey Vertkov, Vitaly Kishchenko, Valeriy Grishko, Dmitri Bykovsky, Gerasim Arkhipov, Aleksandr Vakhov, Vitaliy Dordzhiev, Vladimir Ilin, Karl Kranzkowski, Christian Redl
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Scenario

Aleksandr Borodyanskiy, Karen Shakhnazarov

Producer

Karen Shakhnazarov

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Composer

Artist

Audition

Editing

Irina Kozhemyakina
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• The film is based on the novel 'Tankist' by Ilya Boyashov.
• The film is dedicated to the director's father, Georgy Shakhnazarov, a participant in the Great Patriotic War who went to the front at the age of eighteen, his fellow soldiers, all veterans of the Great Patriotic War, and the entire generation of Soviet people of that time.
• Filming took place at a military training ground near Alabino, in the Moscow region, where an entire village was built, at Mosfilm – on the 'Old Moscow' outdoor set, part of which was converted into a destroyed European city at the end of the war, and in the pavilions. In the 1st pavilion of Mosfilm, a replica of the hall of the engineering school in Karlshorst was built – the scene of the signing of the Act of Capitulation of Germany was filmed there. In the 3rd pavilion, a tank mock-up was placed, simulating movement and firing – scenes in which the characters are inside the tank were filmed there. And in the 4th pavilion, a 'Hitler's Office' set was built, where the Führer's final speech was filmed.
• Specifically for the film, the Samara studio "Rondo-S" created a 1:1 scale mock-up of a German "Tiger" tank. The tank was equipped with a diesel engine from a military tractor, which allowed it to reach a speed of 38 km/h (the same as the original), and a gun with a device to simulate firing, replicating the German 8.8 cm KwK 36 tank gun used on the original "Tigers". All details were generally copied, except the mock-up weighed three times less than the original. However, due to a lack of funds, a Soviet T-54 and IS-3 tank, disguised as a "Tiger", were used in the film. After correcting the shortcomings, the mock-up was transferred to the "Mosfilm" museum.
• The film is based on the novel "Tankist" by Ilya Boyashov.