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Awful film, based on lies and used as propaganda tool. No cinematic value other the an a historical document to see how war time states use film as a weapon of mass disinformation.

Luckily Russian cinema peaked many years ago, and now we are left with a poor infantile excuse for a blockbuster victim to hero story. It's simply a grotesque imitation of western cinema, even when using all the tools and knowledge available, but with no ability to understand or relate to them - you get this incredibly pitiful shadow play on a wall.

This is not cinema, rather it's a marketing video reel that should only be shown in history lessons as an example for misuse and abuse of art forms in the pursuit of rewriting history during war time.

What a shame for all actors to be involved to a film whose main goal is to hide the real Russian war crimes in Bucha. Who will really believe that "Ukrainians killed themselves," while the Russian paratroopers in Bucha were simply playing with kittens during the invasion and doing good deeds? Come on, this is obvious nonsense...

It's not strange that Russia was in such a hurry to produce this film, and the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation gave money for it.

It is also not strange that this film failed in Russian cinemas (even taking into account the fact that there are no Hollywood films there now, and the population is "warmed up" by pro-war rhetoric).

Even from an artistic point of view, this is a failed film with a lot of mistakes and an illogical plot.

Shame on everyone involved.

Firstly, I'm a military movie buff and don't care about politics if the film is done correctly.

Seeing the low review score for this, I felt that I needed to watch it and give it a fair shake.

Each country produces their own propaganda movies & that is to be expected. After watching all of the pro-Ukrainian movies, I wanted to see one from the Russian viewpoint and this movie delivered that.

For the movie, I was only able to locate a very rough copy, so I can't comment on the video quality.

The acting is fine and anyone who had seen the actual "real" videos on LiveLeak coming out of the Ukraine from 2014 will be familiar with some of the subject matter.

It's totally pro-Russian (as expected) with some Holocaust vibes thrown in and of course anyone pro-Ukrainian will object to and downvote it.

As with any conflict/war, atrocities are committed by both sides; no one comes out completely clean and no one will ever know the truth, except those who were there.

Overall, it's a decent film and worth a watch, if you can find it.

Cheapest form of Russian propaganda. My eyes are bleeding from seeing this. There was no effort put into this whatsoever. You are better off watching Russia Today. The casting was probably done at a job fair and actors were so desperate to get a hotdog and a coffee from a coffee machine - that was their payment for the role. Filming was done on Samsung galaxy. Script doesn't make any more sense than Russian hate shows. Hollywood is far better with subtle soft propaganda. This movie sucks so bad that it makes war in Ukraine absolutely clear - Russia started the war, Russia is killing and kidnapping Ukrainian children, Russia did Butcha and Irpen, Russia is bombing peaceful cities. Putin will be held accountable. Ukraine will win.

This abomination must be given a rating of 0(zero), or just in case of such awful poorly made flicks, this is to be awarded even -100 (minus hundred).

This is so poor, so foolishly shallow, badly executed, so lop-sided and so biased. This is a shameful example of Putin's propagda that does not deserve to be watched bit only mocked at, ridiculed, traduced and then discarded for ever.

War cannot be excused and no film ever would serve as any sorry attempt of war crimes.

This flick will be forgotten, it already is a huge flop even in Russia, and such films must be shown to criminals as examples of terrible horrid propaganda efforts to whiten a black wolf.

Watch it at your own will, but remember, this is a lie, black and blatant fascist lie at its worst with all the traces of poor plot, awful script, bad actors and terrible dialog.