Kalashnikov AK-47 (2020)
Rating: 7.4/10
Duration: 105 min
Director(s): Konstantin Buslov,
Description:
A Russian military propaganda film about the tank commander Kalashnikov, severely injured in battle in 1941. The accident leaves him incapacitated and unable to return to the front line. While recovering in the hospital, he begins creating the initial sketches of what will become one of the world’s most legendary weapons. A self-taught inventor is only 29 when he develops the now iconic assault riffle — the AK-47. Shot in occupied Crimea.
Cast
- Vitaliy Khaev as Major General Kurbatkin
- Yura Borisov as Kalashnikov
- Sergey Gazarov as Head of depot Krotov
- Artur Smolyaninov as Engineer captain Lyutyy
- Dmitriy Kulichkov as Major Lebedev
- Olga Lerman as Katya
- Eldar Kalimulin as Zaytsev
- Valeriy Barinov as Major General Degtyarev
- Anatoliy Lobotskiy as Colonel Glukhov
- Aleksey Vertkov as State security captain Lobov
- Dmitriy Bogdan as Engineer Major Sudaev
- Maksim Bityukov as Kazakov
- Armen Arushanyan as Saakyants
- Valery Afanasyev as Chief artillery marshal Voronov
- Seydulla Moldakhanov as Lieutenant Colonel Basarov