White Tiger

Naydenov

Fedotov

Zhukov

Smirnov (as Dmitriy Bykovskiy)

Sharipov

Kryuk

Berdyev

Nachalnik gospitalya

Gitler

Keitel (as Kristian Redl)

Shtumpf (as Klaus Gryunberg)

Frideburg (as Vilmar Biri)

Nemetskiy ofitser (as Maykl Shenk)

(as P. Chukreev)

Voennvrach (as M. Shashlova)

(as S. Eventov)

Mayor (as A. Ermakov)

(as S. Vlasov)

(as M. Bityukov)

(as R. Tolokonnikov)

(as A. Alekseev)

(as M. Karpova)

(as O. Semina)

(as R. Ushakov)

(as Yu. Pronin)

(as M. Feoktistov)

(as I. Uryvaev)

(as V. Solovev)

(as A. Duda)

(as G. Bagrov)

(as K. Konov)

Moryachok (uncredited)

General (uncredited)

One of the wrecked tanks on the train, near the beginning, was a British Matilda, of which about 1,000 were supplied to Russia.

The official submission of Russia to the Best Foreign Language Film of the 85th Academy Awards 2013.

In the opening scene the Soviet soldiers inspect a battlefield in the aftermath of a previous battle. It is the very first dialog we hear and one of them says the dead enemy soldiers are Hungarians. Any history buff with some self-respect knows that the scene is wrong. All Hungarian troops on the Easter front were smashed in the battle of Voronezh, and they barely destroyed a single Soviet tank, let alone half a dozen as seen in the movie. But this is still not a mistake but a deliberate misinterpretation. Its meaning unfolds later and gets its meaning in the very final scene with Hitler's monologue: history happens in people's memories, reality just serves as a base for these memories. You can tell this mistake is deliberate because the film takes extreme care for accuracy in every level, down to the smallest decoration on a uniform, but this one is like an elephant in the room.