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Tankers– a 1939 Soviet feature war film directed by Zinovy Drapkin and Robert Maiman

Production: Lenfilm studio, USSR, 1939

Filmmaker:Z. Drapkin, R. Maiman

Scriptwriter:Z. Drapkin, R. Maiman, G. Silverstov

Starring:G. Gorbunov, M. Volsky, A. Kulakov, V. Chobur, I. Kuznetsov, I. Orlov

Duration: 80 minutes

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Narrative:

The action of the film "Tankers" takes place in the late 30s of the last century. After twenty years Versailles humiliation, the German rulers decided to take revenge for the shameful defeat in the First World War.

The Supreme Ruler of Germany decides to begin his victorious campaign by seizing lands in the East. The commander of the invasion army appointed by him, General von Büller, having studied the tactics of the Red Army, planned a military operation to defeat it.

According to Bühler's plan, German aviation would launch a massive attack on the city of Krasnoarmeysk, to which the Reds would certainly respond with an offensive operation on German territory.

Thus, von Büller expected to lure the enemy into a trap in the area of the city of Enburg, to the left of which there were continuous swamps, and to the right a cliff with a river. It was possible to attack Enburg only from the front, and there Büller prepared powerful lines of defense.

But the Soviet division commander Smirnov also knew about this and understood that, despite the fact that the direct route was the shortest, when storming fortified positions, victory would come at the cost of enormous losses.

Оценив обстановку, Смирнов направляет в разведку взвод танкистов, которые должны были проверить, смогут ли танки пройти через обрыв и нанести противнику удар, там, где он его не ждет…