Fortress of War (2010) (Blu-ray)

Fortress of War

The film tells about the heroic defense of the Brest Fortress, which took the first blow of the fascist invaders on June 22, 1941. The events that took place in the first days of defense are described with documentary accuracy. Many years later, Great Patriotic War veteran Alexander Akimov returns again and again in his memories to the time when he was a fifteen-year-old teenager. Sasha Akimov, selflessly in love with the girl Vera, found himself in the very center of the bloody events of the war. The three main centers of resistance, led by regiment commander Pyotr Mikhailovich Gavrilov (Alexander Korshunov), commissar Efim Moiseevich Fomin (Pavel Derevyanko) and head of the 9th border post Andrei Mitrofanovich Kizhevatov (Andrei Merzlikin), are connected by one line - the story of Sashka Akimov (Alyosha Kopashov). It is through his eyes that we see the events taking place in the film. The prototype of Sashka was fifteen-year-old Petya Klypa, one of the few surviving defenders of the Brest Fortress. "Brest Fortress" is a film not only about war, the human relationships of the main characters are a very important part of it. The main idea of ​​the picture is best formulated in the inscription found on the wall of one of the casemates: “I’m dying, but I’m not giving up...”