White Tiger

White Tiger (2012)

Белый тигр

Spring 1945. A legend is born

WWII, 1945. After barely surviving a battle with a mysterious, ghostly-white German Tiger tank, Red Army Sergeant Ivan Naydenov becomes obsessed with its destruction.

Date of release
2012-05-03
TMDB
5.6 / 10 (115)
Runtime
1h 45m
Genres
Action, Adventure, Fantasy, War
Director
Karen Shakhnazarov

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Box office: $7.2M
  • Budget: $11M
  • Earned 0.7× its budget
  • Awards: 0 · Nominations: 1

White Tiger is a 2012 Russian war film, directed by Karen Shakhnazarov and co-written with Aleksandr Borodyansky based on the novel The Tankman, or The White Tiger by Russian novelist Ilya Boyashov. The film is about a badly wounded Soviet tank commander on the Eastern Front of World War II who becomes obsessed with tracking down and destroying a mysterious, invincible German tank, which the Soviet troops call the "White Tiger". The Soviets design a new, more powerful T-34 tank and assign the tank commander the job of destroying the White Tiger.

Production

The film was shot in the summer of 2011, with German actors playing the Nazi officers and military equipment prepared at the Mosfilm military technical base.

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