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Battalion

Golden Eagle Award

Rapid Lion Award

Year

2014
Country

Russia
Genre

drama
Film rating

12+
Box office in Russia

$8 903 013
Tagline

«The first. Female. Immortal»
Синопсис

This film is aimed to praise the bravery of the female soldiers from the Russian Female Battalion formed in Saint-Petersburg in 1917 following an order from the Provisional Government. Such battalions served two main goals: raise morale in the army and chastise the male soldiers, who were reluctant to fight in the war.

Director

Dmitriy Meskhiev
Script

Ilya Avramenko, Igor Ugolnikov, Evgeny Aizikovich
Cameraman

Ilya Averbakh
Producers

Fedor Bondarchuk, Dmitriy Rudovskiy, Alexander Chistyakov, Pavel Smirnov
Composer

Yuri Poteenko
Art director

Constantine Pakhotin, Sergei Struchev
Editor

Alexey Maklakov, Maria Sergeenkova, Dmitriy Slobtsov

There is an expanded TV version of the film entitled "Women's Battalion" (4 series), where the second producer was the producer of the film - Igor Ugolnikov.