I, A Russian Soldier

Name: I, A Russian Soldier
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Released: 1995-07-17
Rating: 7.7
Cast: Dmitriy Medvedev, Milena Tskhovreba-Agranovich, Aleksei Buldakov, Pyotr Yurchenkov Sr., Vitaly Kishchenko

Я - Русский солдат (1995)

Drama, Romance, War

Russia

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Actors and characters

Production

Roskomkino

Release date

17 July 1995

Director

Andrey Malyukov

Scenario

Boris Vasilyev

Author

Composer

Eduard Artemyev

Producer

Andrey Malyukov

All team (9)

Actors

Dmitriy Medvedev

Николай Плужников - лейтенант

Milena Tskhovreba-Agranovich

Мирра

Aleksei Buldakov

Степан Матвеевич - старшина

Pyotr Yurchenkov Sr.

Федорчук - старший сержант

Vitaly Kishchenko

soldier

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Short description

What's left behind the scenes

The last defender of the fortress fought until April 12, 1942.
The real-life prototypes for Nikolai Pluzhnikov and the Sergeant Major were unknown Red Army soldiers who fought in the Brest Fortress. Memories from various witnesses and observers collected by S. Smirnov in his book 'Brest Fortress' indicate that the prototype for the Sergeant Major was an unknown Red Army soldier who, on July 15, 1941, threw himself from the Terespol Tower with bundles of grenades onto a column of Germans passing through the Terespol Gates of the fortress. The prototype for Pluzhnikov was an unknown Red Army soldier (or commander) who held out until April 1942 (in the film, until the winter of 1941). The prototype for Ruvim Svitsky was the violinist Zalman Stavsky, who reportedly saw one of the last defenders of the fortress and was later executed along with other residents of the ghetto.
Boris Vasilyev, the author of the novella 'The Story About a Man Who Wasn't There', viewed this production negatively, as he believed that 'a single episode was not enough to adapt the novella'.
Leonid Bykov and Vadim Abdrashitov planned to create a film adaptation of Boris Vasilyev's novella 'The Story About a Man Who Wasn't There...'. Due to various circumstances (the early tragic death of Bykov) and the nationality of the main character, this could not be achieved until the 1990s.