Hot Snow (film)

Hot Snow
Directed by Gabriel Yegiazarov
Produced by Adolf Fradis
Written by Yuri Bondarev
Screenplay by Yuri Bondarev
Evgeni Grigoriev
Gabriel Yegiazarov
Starring Yuri Nazarov
Boris Tokarev
Anatoly Kuznetsov
Georgiy Zhzhonov
Music by Alfred Schnittke
Cinematography Fiodor Dobronravov
Production
company
Release dates
18 December 1972
Running time
105 minutes
Country Soviet Union
Language Russian

Hot Snow (Russian: Горячий снег, translit. Goryachi Sneg) is a 1972 Soviet war film, directed by Gabriel Yegiazarov.

Plot

In December 1942, during the Second World War, the soldiers of a Red Army anti-tank gun battery face the onslaught of General von Manstein's armored divisions trying to relieve the besieged 6th Army in Stalingrad.[1] Eventually only seven of them survive, but German tank breakthrough is stopped, and in the final episode General Lieutenant Bessonov (Georgiy Zhzhonov) awards each of the survivors with the Order of Red Banner saying: "Thank you for tanks knocked out. That's all I can do...".

Production

The film is an adaptation of Yuri Bondarev's eponymous 1969 novel, which was itself based on Bondarev's own wartime experience as a battery commander in Stalingrad.[2]

Reception

Hot Snow was viewed by 22.9 million people, but failed to secure any nominations or awards.[3]

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