World War II · Film · 2016
Panfilov's 28 Men
28 panfilovtsev
In November 1941, a company of the 316th Rifle Division dug in at a railway halt west of Moscow waits for a German tank attack with rifles, grenades and a few anti-tank guns.
Where it happened
Follow the story across 1 places.
Stop 1: Dubosekovo railway halt
Key location
The company digs trenches across the tank route, waits through the night and meets wave after wave of German armour and infantry.
What really happened
On 16 November 1941 the German offensive on Moscow resumed, and the 316th Rifle Division of General Ivan Panfilov, raised largely in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, fought hard defensive battles along the Volokolamsk axis, including at the Dubosekovo railway halt. The division was renamed the 8th Guards for its stand.
The story of exactly 28 men who destroyed 18 tanks and died to the last was written by the army newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda. A Soviet military prosecutor's investigation in 1948 concluded it was largely invented, and several of the '28' were in fact alive. The crowd-funded film retells the legend, not the investigated events.
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Full details
- Original title
- 28 panfilovtsev
- Directed by
- Kim Druzhinin, Andrei Shalopa
- Countries
- Russia, Kazakhstan
- Languages
- Russian, German
- Released
- 2016
- Period
- –
- Theaters of war
- Eastern Front
- Themes
- Combat
