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Penal Unit (1989)
Directed by Lev Danilov
Documentary · 1h 37m
On 28 July 1942 Stalin issued order No. 227 which among other things established the creation of penal battalions. Those units were sent to the most dangerous sections of the front lines. It's a story of those who fought in penal battalions during WWII.
Crew
- Director
- Lev Danilov
- Screenplay
- Lev Danilov
- Director of Photography
- Sergey Vorontsov
- Producer
- Viktor Shabunin
Details
- Original title
- Штрафники
- Release date
- 1989-07-28
- Runtime
- 1h 37m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- RU
- Spoken languages
- Russian
- Countries
- Soviet Union
- Production
- Central Studio of Documentary Films