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Saving Bella (2026)
Directed by Anton Bogdanov
War, History, Drama · 1h 43m
December 1941. Leningrad. A soldier is assigned to guard the city zoo in the midst of World War II. There, among starving workers and dying animals, he forms an unexpected bond with Bella the hippo. As the siege tightens, this fragile connection becomes his only anchor, forcing him to choose between survival and compassion in a world falling apart.
Cast
Slava Kopeykin
Yulia Peresild
Stasya Miloslavskaya
Viktor Sukhorukov
Ivan Dobronravov
Svetlana Nemolyaeva
Boris Shcherbakov
Vladimir Afanasyev
Polina Ainutdinova
Elisey Chuchilin
Mariya Aronova
Victor Dobronravov
Crew
- Director
- Anton Bogdanov
- Writer
- Anton Bogdanov, Alexandra Ilyina, Artem Mikhaylov, Dmitry Pinchukov
- Director of Photography
- Mikhail Milashin
- Original Music Composer
- Yuriy Poteenko
- Editor
- Mariya Sergeenkova, Kirill Araslanov
- Producer
- Anton Bogdanov, Iren Vanidovskaya, Evgeny Nemolyaev, Evgeniya Aronova, Anna Tsepeleva, Lala Rustamova, Timur Asadov, Ara Khachatryan
Details
- Original title
- Красавица
- Release date
- 2026-02-19
- Runtime
- 1h 43m
- Genres
- War, History, Drama
- Original language
- RU
- Spoken languages
- Russian
- Countries
- Russia
- Production
- Pandora, Prospect Mira Film Company