The Battalion (2015)
Original title: Батальонъ
The Battalion is a 2015 Russian-language war movie directed by Dmitry Meskhiev, with a running time of 2h. It stars Mariya Aronova, Mariya Kozhevnikova and Irina Rakhmanova.
Russia, 1917, WWI. This is the story of the 1st Russian Women's Battalion of Death, formed as part of an ill-conceived propaganda ploy by the Russian Provisional Government in late May of 1917.
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Cast
- Mariya Aronova as Mariya Bochkareva
- Mariya Kozhevnikova as Tatishcheva
- Irina Rakhmanova as Froska
- Marat Basharov as Aleksandr Kerenskiy
- Evgeniy Dyatlov as Tseplyaev, ofitser shtaba
- Mariya Antonova as Evdokiya Kolokolchikova
- Dmitriy Shevchenko as Pyotr Polovtsev
- Artur Vakha as Soldat-bolshevik
- Evgeniya Natanova as Rivka
- Mats Reinhardt as Yosef Zepp
- Kirill Poluhin as Soldier Zobov
- Elizaveta Tolubeeva as Katya