August
Short description
Set during August 1944, this historical war drama focuses on the military operation Bagration. The story takes place in the forests of Western Belarus, where Soviet forces move across the state border. In the recently liberated territory, counterintelligence officers from SMERSH must track down enemy sabotage and reconnaissance groups to prevent a surprise attack on the advancing army.
The film was directed by Nikita Vysotsky and Ilya Lebedev, with a screenplay written by Sergey Snezhkin. The cast is led by Sergei Bezrukov, Nikita Kologrivyi, and Pavel Tabakov, alongside Ilya Isaev, Roman Madyanov, and Daniil Vorobyov. Produced by Cinema Fund, First Channel, and Direktsiya Kino, the production had a budget of 860 million USD.
Audience reception has been mixed. The movie holds a rating of 5.8/10 based on 191 votes on IMDb and a slightly lower score of 5.7/10 from 12 votes on TMDB.
What's left behind the scenes
- The scenes in Lida were filmed at the Shushary railway station, supplemented by sets.
- The runtime of the final version is 157 minutes.
- The film was originally scheduled to be shot in Western Belarus in 2022. The start of filming was postponed until the summer of 2023. Shooting took place in Moscow, Kaliningrad, Saint Petersburg and the Leningrad region, Karelia, Rostov-on-Don, and concluded in the autumn of that same year. For the most part, the process took place in actual forests, fields, rivers, and lakes. Sets were built for some scenes: a farmstead, a crossing, an airfield, and an air corps headquarters.
- Project development began in 2018 under the title "Moment of Truth." Initially, Oleg Pogodin was planned as the director, followed by Alexei Andrianov, with Nikolai Lyrchikov as the screenwriter.
- The film is based on Vladimir Bogomolov's novel "Moment of Truth."
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