The Star (2002)★ 7.1/10
- Action
- Adventure
- Drama
- History
- War
Directed by: Nikolay Lebedev
Written by: Aleksandr Borodyanskiy, Evgeniy Grigorev, Emmanuil Kazakevich, Nikolay Lebedev
During World War II the Red Army sends a special unit named "Zvezda" ("The Star") on a mission to conduct guerrilla warfare against the Germans in the Soviet Union.
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Igor PetrenkoLt. Travkin
Artyom SemakinPvt. Vorobiev
Aleksey PaninSgt. Kostya Mamochkin
Aleksey KravchenkoSgt. Anikanov
Anatoliy GushchinPvt. BykovAmadu MamadakovPvt. TemdekovYuriy LagutaSgt. BrazhnikovEkaterina VulichenkoPvt. Katya Simakova
Andrey EgorovCapt. Andrei Barashkin
Sergey MillerFirst Captured GermanGennadi VorotnikovSecond Captured GermanAleksandr EfimovThird Captured GermanReviews
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Bobbie_HaleAugust 25, 2025
Bobbie_HaleAugust 25, 2025Given that the Soviet Union suffered the heaviest military losses in WWII, Russian war films tend to serve more as collective remembrance than cinematic spectacle. This one stands out for its realism, especially in its unflinching depiction of death.
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Mark_TorresAugust 22, 2025
Mark_TorresAugust 22, 2025The one moment that truly moved me came when Kostya stepped out of the tent beneath a sky full of stars. In that instant, the film captured the beauty of nature and the fragility of life. It avoids the trap of narrow nationalism or simplistic moral binaries between Soviets and Germans, which keeps it from feeling didactic.