Synopsis
The Last Frontier (Podolsk Cadets, 2020) is a Russian war drama you can watch online on iFILM. Directed by Vadim Shmelyov, it reconstructs what happened on the far approaches to Moscow in the autumn of 1941, when there was almost nothing left to plug the breaking front. The cast includes Sergei Bezrukov, Yevgeny Dyatlov and Alexei Bardukov.
When German armor punches through, the Red Army throws in barely-trained boys — students of two Podolsk military schools, one artillery and one infantry. Their orders at the Ilyinsky line sound simple and impossible: hold for a few days until regular units arrive. The reinforcements run late, the enemy outnumbers them many times over, and there is nowhere to fall back. Between the shelling there is first love, friendship and a brutal kind of growing up — across roughly twelve days these teenagers turn into soldiers, and most of them never leave that position.
The production leaned on military-history consultants, with period vehicles and uniforms rebuilt for the screen. This is unabashedly patriotic cinema with no shades of grey; viewers after a direct, emotional account of the price paid to shield the capital will feel every minute of it. Stream The Last Frontier (2020) online on iFILM.
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