Hot Snow (film)

Hot Snow
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Directed by	Gabriel Yegiazarov
Written by	Yuri Bondarev
Screenplay by	Yuri Bondarev Evgeni Grigoriev Gabriel Yegiazarov
Produced by	Adolf Fradis
Starring	Yuri Nazarov Boris Tokarev Anatoly Kuznetsov Georgiy Zhzhonov
Cinematography	Fiodor Dobronravov
Music by	Alfred Schnittke
Production company	Mosfilm
Release date	18 December 1972
Running time	105 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

Hot Snow (Russian: Горячий снег, romanized: Goryachi Sneg) is a 1972 Soviet war film, directed by Gabriel Yegiazarov.

Plot

In December 1942, during the Second World War, the soldiers of a Red Army anti-tank gun battery face the onslaught of General von Manstein's armored divisions trying to relieve the besieged 6th Army in Stalingrad. Eventually only seven of them survive, but the German tank breakthrough is stopped, and in the final episode General Lieutenant Bessonov (Georgiy Zhzhonov) awards each of the survivors with the Order of Red Banner saying: "Thank you for tanks knocked out. That's all I can do...".

Production

The film is an adaptation of Yuri Bondarev's eponymous 1969 novel, which was itself based on Bondarev's own wartime experience as a battery commander in Stalingrad.

Reception

Hot Snow was viewed by 22.9 million people, but failed to secure any nominations or awards.

Select cast

• Yuri Nazarov as Sergeant Ukhanov
• Boris Tokarev as Lieutenant Kuznetsov
• Anatoly Kuznetsov as Vesnin
• Georgiy Zhzhonov as General Bessonov
• Vadim Spiridonov as Colonel Deev
• Igor Ledogorov as Osin, Colonel, Chief of Counterintelligence
• Nikolai Yeremenko Jr. as Drozdovsky
• Tamara Sedelnikova as Tanya (as T. Sedelnikova)
• Ara Babadzhanyan as Davlatyan (as A. Babadzhanyan)
• Aleksei Pankin as Chubarikov

External links

• Video on YouTube
• Hot Snow at IMDb