"Russian KV1 tank movie" Topic

Watched a good Russian with English subtitles movie about the crew of a KV1 tank in 1942 summer counter attack based on a true story.
The movie is called Tankers on Hulu or Prime. The Russian name is different.
Good views of T34s and KV1 tanks and the rebuild process.

It's on YouTube too:
YouTube link

It's worth watching.

Wolfhag

Not available on YouTube in UK.

I will check it out later.

Wolfgang, thanks for the link.

@JimDuncanUK

this link works across the Channel, so it might be good for you too

YouTube link

79th,
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Wolfhag

Was really good, added it to Russian WWII movie Thread

@foxbat

this link works across the Channel, so it might be good for you too

It does, thanks v.much.

It's very good, yeah!

Based on this movie, it's a wonder the Germans lasted past 1942!

Having said that, I did like the movie!

I imagine that being pre-panther and IV Gs, that the vehicles destroyed included IIIs, IIs and IVDs

Now that I have watched it for 15 minutes I realise that I have already seen it, or certainly parts of it.

It was by no means bad, if a bit corny, and slightly unbelievable. I suspect the tanks destroyed, even if this story is even true, were, as Rudy points out, early marks of German armor, and not the Panzer IVH mock-ups used in the film.

Prototype of the hero of the film: Semyon Konovalov

Tankman Semyon Konovalov several times was a tiny step away from death. On one KV-1 tank, he managed to destroy 19 enemy tanks in one battle, capture a German tank and return to the the Russian lines.
That battle on July 13, 1942 went down in history. The 21-year-old commander Konovalov and his crew were to divert the attention of the approaching enemy column so that Soviet tanks could move further from the village of Nizhne-Mityatinsky in the Rostov region. The sacrifice was forced – the KV had broken fuel supply system, and therefore couldn't move until repaired. Six more crew members remained with the commander. The situation was chosen advantageously – the KV-1 was hidden, so that it was not visible. When the German column came closer, the KV hit it with direct fire. The burning head tank forced the column to retreat, but soon 75 (!) German tanks came out one by one to the dell. The Fascists were sure that several Soviet tanks were hiding in the ravine, but there was only one KV-1 of Semyon Konovalov, which was repaired accurately and right on time – to the beginning of the battle.
The commander let the enemy to get as close as 500 meters, shot accurately and changed position, "dancing" from one shelter to another. So he destroyed four more enemy tanks. Three times one KV forced the Germans to retreat. The second, the third attack – and each time the enemy lost tanks. The Russian tankmen fought to the last projectile – from dawn to dusk, destroying 19 tanks, two armored cars and six motorcycles with machine gunners. Only after the KV completely ran out of ammunition, the NAZIs got as close as 75 meters and blew up this solitary fortress.
Semyon Konovalov survived in this unequal battle in the Rostov ravines. In addition to Konovalov, only two crew members escaped through the lower hatch – Lieutenant-Technician Serebryakov and gunner Dementiev. Another week they made their way to the front line through the German lines.
They moved at night until they saw a lone German tank by the river. When the Germans were distracted, the Russian tankmen attacked, seized the tanks, and for conspiracy put an enemy uniform over their own.
On a captured German PzKpfw III at night the three tankmen quietly got attached to the tail of the enemy convoy and soon opened fire, crushed the cars and this way managed to break through the front line. The brave then fell under two-way shelling – shells flew both from russians and from the enemy lines. Of course, they did. Try, proving that you are Russian, when you are in a German tank, and even wearing fascist uniform!
Semyon Konovalov went though the Battle of Stalingrad, the Battle of Kursk, he ended the war in Germany as the commander of a tank battalion.
On March 31, 1943 by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR "for exceptional courage" S.V. Konovalov was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

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Wow! Truth is often stranger than fiction.

Thanks for that info!