The film offers a “cool” fantasy for a WWII fan: Its climactic battle scene is the showdown pitting individual tanks (in this movie’s case a Russian T-34/85 and a German Panzer Mark V Panther) that is so wild-west cowboy in its mentality that I’m surprised the Russians of today allowed it to be filmed. In a final analysis, “ T-34” is just another WWII fantasy story … albeit, one told from the Russian-German experience and not from the Western front against Germany or the Pacific theater operations most familiar to U.S. The fact that it shows nothing but heroism by the Russians isn’t anything new to war films and filmmaking of war stories. Oh, also, the actors do a quite acceptable job despite the voice dubbing and how the film staggers to a silly, contrived end. The devil is always in the details and that makes this one worth watching. However, many war movies from many nations appear as similar heroic stories with nationalistic pride, but what elevates “ T-34” to watchable status is the filmmakers’ attention to detail with the tanks and combat. It’s simple: The World War II film “ T-34” is a propaganda movie for Russia today in showing the Communists fighting the Nazis.
( 2019 139 minutes rated TV-14 directed by Aleksey Sidorov and starring Alexander Petrov, Irina Starshenbaum and Viktor Dobronravov )Ī WWII FILM WITH ALL THE STEREOTYPES, BUT WATCHABLE I don’t expect to see any of them anytime soon in another film, but their work in “ T-34” is worth your time – if you can stand the stereotypical saccharine ending. While CGI plays a big role in the movie, surprisingly, you’ll also get more than a bit of decent work from the actors involved despite the dubbing. “ T-34” is as accurate to the tanks and combat of WWII as most movies you’ll find and it poses and interesting, yet implausible, storyline (ding! ding! ding! stereotype!). Its title is no surprise: “ T-34.” The film doesn’t have any actor that you’ve most likely ever seen or are familiar with, but it shows that no matter from which country, a war film is likely to be plagued by stereotypes. I recently found a reference online to a movie from Russia about the T-34 tank from World War II.
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