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The Battalion

2015-02-20 · 120 min · ★ 6.6

War · Action · Drama · History

Russia, 1917, WWI. This is the story of the 1st Russian Women's Battalion of Death, formed as part of an ill-conceived propaganda ploy by the Russian Provisional Government in late May of 1917.

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Directors
Dmitry Meskhiev
Production companies
Art Pictures Studio, Corner Work, Algous studio, Channel One, Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, Cinema Foundation of Russia, Russian Military Historical Society, Solofilm
Countries
Russia
Status
Released
Revenue
USD 7,547,762

Top Cast

Mariya AronovaMariya AronovaMariya Bochkareva
Mariya KozhevnikovaMariya KozhevnikovaTatishcheva
Irina RakhmanovaIrina RakhmanovaFroska
Marat BasharovMarat BasharovAleksandr Kerenskiy
Evgeniy DyatlovEvgeniy DyatlovTseplyaev, ofitser shtaba
Mariya AntonovaMariya AntonovaEvdokiya Kolokolchikova
Dmitriy ShevchenkoDmitriy ShevchenkoPyotr Polovtsev
Artur VakhaArtur VakhaSoldat-bolshevik
Evgeniya NatanovaRivka
Mats ReinhardtMats ReinhardtYosef Zepp
Kirill PoluhinKirill PoluhinSoldier Zobov
Elizaveta TolubeevaElizaveta TolubeevaKatya
Yanina MalinchikYanina MalinchikDusya
Valeriya ShkirandoValeriya ShkirandoVera Neklyudova
Vladimir ZaytsevVladimir ZaytsevBrusilov
Nikolay AuzinSeleznyov
Polina DudkinaPolina DudkinaSvistunova
Maxim MityashinMaxim MityashinVasilkov
Andrey StrugovetsAndrey Strugovets
Alexey VedernikovAlexey Vedernikov

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