Bastards (2006 film)

Bastards Russian , Svolochi is a 2006 Russian war film.

A Hitler Jugend kind of story, set in the Soviet Union during the Second World War. Year 1943. Colonel Vishnevetskiy is released from prison to organize a school of military training for saboteurs. Students come from prisons and correction colonies these are 1415 years old criminals who nobody will even look for. After severe training they are sent to destroy a German oil depot deep in the Carpathians. Being lost high in the mountains and being on the edge of life and death, you still can make a choice to remain a bastard or become a hero for a country that doesnt want you.The films release caused massive controversy in Russia, where some deemed it statesupported antiSoviet propaganda. The plot for the film, written by Kunin, involved a story of teenagers with a criminal background who were caught by the NKVD during the Great Patriotic war, then trained as saboteurs in special schools and thrown into the German rear to face a certain death. ........

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