Kalashnikov AK-47 (2020)

7.4/10 105 min War History Drama

Overview

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

Yura Borisov

Kalashnikov

Olga Lerman

Katya

Artur Smolyaninov

Engineer captain Lyutyy

Eldar Kalimulin

Zaytsev

Vitaliy Khaev

Major General Kurbatkin

Valeriy Barinov

Major General Degtyarev

Anatoliy Lobotskiy

Colonel Glukhov

Aleksey Vertkov

State security captain Lobov

Dmitriy Bogdan

Engineer Major Sudaev

Maksim Bityukov

Kazakov

Armen Arushanyan

Saakyants

Valery Afanasyev

Chief artillery marshal Voronov

Sergey Gazarov

Head of depot Krotov

Seydulla Moldakhanov

Lieutenant Colonel Basarov

Dmitriy Kulichkov

Major Lebedev

Igor Khripunov

Deputy Degtyarev

Yuriy Loparyov

Kuzmich

Aleksandr Nikolskiy

Uncle Misha

Mikhail Gudoshnikov

Kravchenko

Evgeny Antropov

Lieutenant in Alma-Ata

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