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The Battalion

The Battalion

First. Women's. Immortal.

20156.62h 0m

Overview

Russia, 1917, WWI. This is the story of the 1st Russian Women's Battalion of Death, formed as part of an ill-conceived propaganda ploy by the Russian Provisional Government in late May of 1917.

Directed by Dmitry Meskhiev
Written by Igor Ugolnikov, Evgeny Ayzikovich
Produced by Fyodor Bondarchuk, Paul Heth, Dmitry Rudovsky
Box Office0Revenue: $7.5M

Top Cast

Mariya Aronova

Mariya Aronova

Mariya Bochkareva

Mariya Kozhevnikova

Mariya Kozhevnikova

Tatishcheva

Irina Rakhmanova

Irina Rakhmanova

Froska

Marat Basharov

Marat Basharov

Aleksandr Kerenskiy

Evgeniy Dyatlov

Evgeniy Dyatlov

Tseplyaev, ofitser shtaba

Mariya Antonova

Mariya Antonova

Evdokiya Kolokolchikova

Dmitriy Shevchenko

Dmitriy Shevchenko

Pyotr Polovtsev

Artur Vakha

Artur Vakha

Soldat-bolshevik

E

Evgeniya Natanova

Rivka

Mats Reinhardt

Mats Reinhardt

Yosef Zepp

About The Battalion

The Battalion is a war, action, drama, history film released in 2015. Directed by Dmitry Meskhiev, it stars Mariya Aronova, Mariya Kozhevnikova, Irina Rakhmanova. Russia, 1917, WWI. This is the story of the 1st Russian Women's Battalion of Death, formed as part of an ill-conceived propaganda ploy by the Russian Provisional Government in late May of 1917.

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