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White Tiger
Great Patriotic War, 1945. After barely surviving a battle with a mysterious, ghostly-white German Tiger tank, Red Army Sergeant Ivan Naydenov becomes obsessed with its destruction.
Release : | 2012 |
Rating : | 6.1 |
Studio : | Channel One, Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, Kuryer Film Studio, |
Crew : | Production Design, Production Design, |
Cast : | Aleksey Vertkov Vitaly Kishchenko Valeriy Grishko Dmitri Bykovsky Vladimir Ilin |
Genre : | Adventure Fantasy Action War |
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To me, this movie is perfection.
If you don't like this, we can't be friends.
Fantastic!
It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.
I like how the presented the Tiger as a embodiment of there fears.There are several layers in the movie, on the surface its just the Russians fighting the Germans. But the underlying story is about fear and that they are not fighting Germans but a invincible Tiger.Quite a realistic setup and if you like a different concept as most war movies. Go and watch
White Tiger reminds me, in some ways, of a mechanized version of Come and See. Its far removed from Come and See in terms of its content and approach but the powerful, anti war message, is fundamentally the same. War is death and death is never ending. The tiger tank is a metaphor for modern warfare's mechanized, unrelenting and untamed nihilism. This is seen not only in the efficient destruction of tanks and people on the battlefield but also in how war alters the human spirit. What contemporary warfare comes to mean for people deeply and irreparably, touched by it. People have become part of the machine of war and identify themselves on that basis. As can be seen in the mindset of the main character, in a sense, "born again", with a spiritual link to the killing machines he operates.Its a message reinforced throughout this film and is watered down only a little in the final 15 or so minutes by a thankfully brief digression, that tries to explain the motives of the Fascist leadership, in its war against Russia. I can see why this has been done but to me, it still feels a little forced and rather redundant.That said, White Tiger remains a subtle, clever, anti war film. One that comes armed with a rather unique perspective. Eight out of ten from me.
I won't repeat what others have said already here, other than to agree that this is an excellent movie. I do think some reviewers make it sound more bizarre than I did. For the most part I found it to be a generally straightforward war movie, although with a mystery added to it that, in the final scenes, takes on a deeper meaning.For us non-Russians, the movie has a special interest in showing what the war was like from the Russian point of view. I do, though, want to mention one scene that stretches credulity just a little. When the war ends and the Germans surrender, the top German officers are given royal treatment, a dinner fit to have come from a very exclusive restaurant. I thought it would be their last meal and they would be executed immediately afterwards, but the movie gives no indication of that. While it might be possible that an incident like that did occur, I doubt that it was the norm. The victorious Russians were generally terrible in the way they treated prisoners, certainly before the surrender. And that is an enormous understatement. After the surrender German prisoners were marched off to do forced labour in Russia, only a small percentage of whom ever returned. And it was not just prisoners--the atrocities the Russian inflicted on German civilians were just as horrifying. Yet, to be fair, it was was payback for the equally brutal treatment the Germans soldiers meted out to Poles and Russians as they advanced in the early stages of their invasion.As a music lover, I have one nit to pick. The credits say "Music by Richard Wager." Yes, the little music in the soundtrack does use a snatch of a tune by Wagner, but to say it's "his" music--no, it's only a tiny fragment of the original and without his fabulous orchestration.As of today the movie can be found on YouTube with English subtitles.
Now to start off with, if you are planning on watching this film expecting another typical war movie, then you might be disappointed! This surreal Russian film is more about courage and mental torture of war, with battle scenes taking a back seat. For that reason I really liked it. The story kept me captivated and the characters were interesting enough to invest my time in. When the tank battles do take place, I thought they were superbly done, with the mysterious "White Tiger" having a scary and almost indestructible sense about it. Now one can dismiss this powerful German tank as just that, or you can look deeper and see what it stands for. The director has created a very multi-layered film that will make the deep thinker feel as though he or she has had a good work out.Not for everyone, but in a world of movies that lack creativity and originality, White Tiger comes highly recommended!