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Torpedo Bombers (Torpedonostsy)
| Rating: | No Rating |
| Genre: | Drama, War |
| Release Date: | January 1, 2001 |
| Running time: | 96 minutes |
| Cast: | Rodion Nahapetov, Aleksei Zharkov, Andrei Boltnev, Stanislav Sadalsky, Tatyana Kravchenko |
| Director: | Semyon Aranovich |
| Writer: | Yuri German, Svetlana Karmalita |
Description: Director Semyon Aranovich combines historical combat footage with a mix of black and white and murky color to create a fairly seamless narration about specific Soviet soldiers in the Baltics in 1944 and the women they meet and/or lose. War takes its toll on the one hand as buddies are killed in action -- demonstrated in the deliberate kamikaze dive of a damaged Russian plane into a German warship. On the other hand, personal relationships are themselves often tragic. Just after Bebolrov is wounded, he finds out his wife has a lover, just after Gavrilov joyfully meets his son, he begins to doubt the little boy is his, and just after Cherepovets starts a romantic liaison with Maria, she is killed by an act of war. Life offers no assurances, not even for a short while, and even in the face of these and other hardships, the soldiers will soon have to go into battle again. A poignant review of faces at the end of these travails reveals just how many did not survive.~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
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