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White Tiger (2012) ( Belyy tigr ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, Blu-Ray, Reg.B Import - Australia ]

Aleksey Vertkov (Actor, Host), Vitaliy Kishchenko (Actor, Host), Karen Shakhnazarov (Director, Host) Rated:
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Format: Blu-ray
3.9 3.9 out of 5 stars 734 ratings
IMDb6.1/10.0
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Genre Military & War
Format Blu-ray, Subtitled, Import, Widescreen
Contributor Gerasim Arkhipov, Valeriy Grishko, Christian Redl, White Tiger (2012) ( Belyy tigr ), Belyy tigr, Aleksandr Vakhov, Dmitriy Bykovskiy-Romashov, Vitaliy Kishchenko, Vitaliy Dordzhiev, Aleksey Vertkov, Karl Kranzkowski, White Tiger (2012), Vladimir Ilin, Karen Shakhnazarov See more
Language Russian
Runtime 104 minutes
Playback Region B/2 : This will not play on most Blu-ray players sold in North America, Central America, South America, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Southeast Asia. Learn more about Blu-ray region specifications here
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Australia released, Blu-Ray/Region B : it WILL NOT play on regular DVD player, or on standard US Blu-Ray player. You need multi-region Blu-Ray player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: Multi-lingual ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ), Russian ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ), Russian ( DTS-HD Master Audio ), English ( Subtitles ), WIDESCREEN (1.85:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Anamorphic Widescreen, Interactive Menu, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: Set at the fierce height of the conflict in WW2, amidst the brutal winter of the Eastern Front, a war-ravaged hero sets out on a perilous mission to confront the legendary White Tiger. After barely surviving a battle with the mysterious, ghostly-white Tiger tank that has devastated the artillery corps under his command, Red Army Sergeant Ivan Naydenov becomes obsessed with the war-machine's destruction. This leads to an epic chase, culminating in a series of explosive, frenzied skirmishes across the once-majestic Russian landscape in an effort to destroy this seemingly indestructible symbol of Nazi oppression. SCREENED/AWARDED AT: Oscar Academy Awards, ...White Tiger (2012) ( Belyy tigr )

Product details

  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ Unrated (Not Rated)
  • Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.1 x 5.42 x 0.58 inches; 2.93 ounces
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Karen Shakhnazarov
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Blu-ray, Subtitled, Import, Widescreen
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 104 minutes
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Aleksey Vertkov, Vitaliy Kishchenko, Valeriy Grishko, Dmitriy Bykovskiy-Romashov, Gerasim Arkhipov
  • Dubbed: ‏ : ‎ English
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
  • Producers ‏ : ‎ White Tiger (2012) ( Belyy tigr ), White Tiger (2012), Belyy tigr
  • Language ‏ : ‎ Russian (Dolby Digital 2.0), Multilingual (Dolby Digital 2.0)
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ 9th Dimension
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00WQKHOH4
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.9 3.9 out of 5 stars 734 ratings

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3.9 out of 5 stars
3.9 out of 5
734 global ratings
The Havoc, a modern Tank with an experienced crew, can cause
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The Havoc, a modern Tank with an experienced crew, can cause
A scenario like that in movies is a very rare encounter. Usually we see a scenario like that unfold in modern films, where soldiers use superior weapon technology's to battle elusive enemy's or terrorist's. Our protagonist Russian tank soldier N.happens to be "stalked", having lost his T-34/85 Battle-tank crew twice. Having survived severe burns, barely healed, is obsessed to destroy this "mysterious" Tiger Tank, who seems to come from nowhere, destroying numbers of Soviet tanks in any given engagement. And now in the last few days of the war, May 1945, somewhere in Austria or Hungaria, it is happening again and again...The new Russian Cinema seems to produce many such films, this one stands out, with a fresh angle and from perspectives viewers are not used to. There are no known formulas being used. The viewer should stay alert, there are some sub-plots and twisty turns, that you see not coming. A gritty story, unfolding at tranquil sunny springtime. The Director did not use dark filtersto enhance "the war experience" but played with the feeling "I don't want to die in the last few days of the war". It works.Somehow you feel drawn in, and learn what a Trauma might feel, or how it is negotiated. If a soldier ever can come to terms with it. The end is not predictable and will stick with you, not for the faint of heart mind you.
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P L Ramsey
5.0 out of 5 stars WWII movie
Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2024
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It's a good movie about a tank that is strange, it moves across ground without any way to do it. Unknown if there is a crew, or if it exists because no records of it, but lots of enemy destoyed tanks, artillery pieces, trucks and soldiers.
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nik danger
4.0 out of 5 stars Fnatastic concept, denigrated by the last 20" of the film
Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2022
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The whole premise involves around a german tank, seemingly ghostlike that appears out of nowhere to wrack devastion on russian forces in WW2 versus a basically dead russian tank driver who is miraculously cured of 90% full body 3rd degree burns who speaks to tanks and they him in his quest to destroy the spectral german tank.
Suffers some in the props department as the german ghost tank is clearly a build up of an actual russian tank of the KV series. The specially designed experimental tank our russian miracle boy now commands as he seeks to hunt down the "ghost tank", is nothing more than a russian T34/85. However, I counted at least 4-5 real T34/85 tanks actually filmed slogging it through mud and brush, which in of itself is quite impressive as the director probably had to go to some length to "borrow" these fine examples of functional, historical, objects, ( When the movie was made, an actual Tiger1 tank had been fully restored a few years before, would have nice for the filmakers to rent it).
Best to avoid the disappointing final segment by stopping the it at the 1'41" mark. Then it would have been an excellent film.
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Wicingas
5.0 out of 5 stars Mystical Tiger
Reviewed in the United States on November 6, 2013
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This is NOT a historical drama. This is about the psychological effects of war. The White Tiger is a mystical killing machine that vanishes when it pleases and emerges when it is ready to cause havoc. It can drive into a swamp only to reemerge elsewhere. Even a captured German officer speaks of it in fear. We first meet our hero Ivan close to the beginning when Soviet mechanics are trying to tow out his wrecked tank. He is in the driver's seat horribly burned (over 90% of his body). Of course, no one can survive that but Ivan is a miracle soldier. The startled mechanics send him off to a field hospital where jaded doctors know he cannot live but show mercy and treat him anyway. He miraculously heals without so much as a scar. Having amnesia, the Army gives him a new identity and puts him back into action. Ivan now has a mystical connection to tanks. He can talk to them. He also prays to the tank God, a golden T-34. And, he can feel the White Tiger, which he is determined to destroy. He eventually joins a select crew with a specially modified T-34-85 and the hunt is on. I won't spoil the ending but I cannot imagine this movie being made in Hollywood. This is a thought provoking movie, not a pure action flick.

For history buffs, there are WWII era vehicles, some wrecked (Pz IVF2, Matilda, BT-7, T-34) and some not (a stationary M-3 Lee makes a couple of appearances and there are plenty of T-34's, including some 76mm armed). The wrecks turn up quite often as props. I am not well versed in Soviet uniforms but they looked great as did the weapons, trucks and other equipment. The Tiger is, of course, a mock up. Judging from the forward position of the turret, I would guess that is a disguised T-34. Nevertheless, they did a good job with the exception of rather large side skirts with which no Tiger was ever equipped (clearly intended to hide the Soviet suspension, not to be accurate).

The after-battle scenes are as horrific as the battle scenes. When tanks explode, crewmen burn to death. There are scenes of horribly burned men hanging out of hatches or lying next to their burning tanks. It is graphic at times. There was a real effort to display the horrors and carnage of war. The soldiers in the field look like they have actually been in the field and have been working. They are dirty and greasy. No male super models here.

As a former tanker, the real joy of this film was watching the interior shots of the crew in action. T-34's were cramped inside and had limited visibility. This movie makes that apparent. Whether watching the loader ram a round into the chamber or watch Ivan drive the tank, they did a great job making this movie. And it was nice to see that every round fired by a tank is not an automatic hit and kill. Although not a historical drama per se, I cannot think of a better tank movie.
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R. Julio
1.0 out of 5 stars ONE STAR FOR NOT IN ENGLISH
Reviewed in the United States on June 29, 2022
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THE MOVIE WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER IF IT WAS IN ENGLISH... WHEN IT SAYS... ENGLISH... AUDIO, NOT!!!
WAS I THE ONLY ONE WATCHING THIS IN RUSSIAN AND GERMAN AUDIO ONLY? IT IS SO ANNOYING, AND THAT IS WHY I GAVE IT A... ONE-STAR FOR NOT FULFILLING THE RECOMMENDED "ENGLISH AUDIO."
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Bob Evans
5.0 out of 5 stars A Solid Tank Movie With An Interesting Mystical Angle
Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2021
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This is a pretty darn good movie. If you are a tank nerd and like a good moby dick like story about a tank with mystical powers, this will really hit the spot. The battle scenes are very well done, with lots of vintage Soviet armor. There is little to no CGI in this movie, its very old school in that way. But the fact that the tanks are so accurate really adds so much to the film. It kills me in some many otherwise great war films the armor is clearly not period accurate with the filmmakers counting on the audience not having a clue what a real T-34/85 or SU 152 looks like or a Panzer IV or a Tiger. The White Tiger did appear to be a mock up with the turret set quite far forward and possibly a narrower track than a real Tiger 1, however they cleverly cover this by saying it was a one off prototype of some sort which makes sense. I suspect under that Tiger 1 skin is a T-34. But it was well done. One thing that threw me off is the souped up T-34/85 prototype left its defilade (dug in) position to attack. No way a crack tank crew would do this in all likelihood but rather wait for a chance to get a shot from that dug in position. But the main character was sort of on his own mystical trip and maybe his tank god told him to get out there. Also, most tank battles do not happen this close, a Tiger 1 can smoke a T-34 at 2 kilometers or more. But again you have this sort of mystical element. There were battles (like Kursk) that ended up point blank but that was not normal. Anyway, overall a pretty good movie. For a tank nerd this is mothers milk.
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Andy
3.0 out of 5 stars eh.
Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2024
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The movie was well done, but the story and script were terrible. I wish I could have Russian subtitles.
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Dale Addison
5.0 out of 5 stars It’s a great movie
Reviewed in Canada on March 20, 2022
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Auquier Jean-michel
5.0 out of 5 stars Un avertissement pour 2054?
Reviewed in France on May 5, 2020
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Remarquable, ce film! Voilà la Russie cruellement meurtrie par un char ennemi de couleur blanche (le Tigre Blanc) qui disparaît comme sans laisser de trace, qui réapparaît pour semer la mort, sans cependant arriver à anéantir ceux qu'il attaque.
La composante mystique qui accompagne tout le film, me permet d'y voir une image des ambitions papales (ennemi blanc) cherchant toujours à conquérir cette Russie orthodoxe qui ne se laisse décidément pas faire. La conquête nazie ratée de la Russie n'est pas étrangère à cette idée; on la trouvera même confirmée dans des livres établissant les volontés papales de conquérir le monde orthodoxe.
Petit rappel historique: 1054 AD, schisme d'Orient; 1453 AD (+400 ans), chute de Constantinople; et devant soi 2053-2054 (+600 ans) AD, date à bien garder à l'esprit, en toute vigilance par les patriotes russes. Fermer la parenthèse d'un christianisme orthodoxe pile mille ans après le schisme, c'est un pari raisonnable et que, sans nouveau sursaut patriotique salutaire de la Russie, le pouvoir romain est sûr de gagner. Il est tout à fait capable de ce genre de calcul. Les prédateurs contemporains de la Russie (Otan) incarnent - selon moi - cette machine de guerre qui semble insaisissable, n'est jamais vraiment défaite et qui réapparaît. Ces prédateurs sont - toujours selon moi - cautionnés et alimentés idéologiquement par les ambitions vaticanes, représentées par le Tigre Blanc. Le Tigre Blanc qui, je cite, "attend son heure. Il attend. Il attendra comme ça 20 ans, peut-être 50 ou même 100 ans, et il resurgira." (Dixit Naïdenov à la fin du film).
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Cliente Amazon
5.0 out of 5 stars Un buon film senza gli americani
Reviewed in Italy on April 21, 2017
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Un buon film per vedere una prospettiva meno conosciuta e blasonata e senza le solite americanate.
Il film è ben costruito, belle scene di combattimento, buoni effetti speciali, abbondanza di mezzi reali (eccezion fatta per i soli due mezzi tedeschi che sono mezzi russi camuffati, probabilmente per difficoltà nel reperire mezzi storici marcianti, particolare di poco conto comunque).
Unico nota negativa è la storia del protagonista che è un po' fuori dalle righe e talvolta surreale (ma è evidente che per chi ha diretto il film era probabilmente un aspetto secondario).
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LOBO SOLITARIO
4.0 out of 5 stars TIGER IN A TANK
Reviewed in Australia on September 10, 2018
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Absorbing film from Russia!!! This effort would have given this year's Oscars a run for gold. The story is solid while, maybe, tugging at the improbable. The actors...all Russian...no ringins...are very good indeed...they surprised me with their acting ability.
The director, camera operators, actors, make-up artists and settings must be commended!!! The action scenes are realistic...the 'bodies' are realistic...and the way the film's director shows The White Tiger, is to give this heap of steel, a tiger's characteristics...even its 'throaty, growl', suggests the 'steel cat' is alive; and when it slowly, backs off, into the mist...just like a real tiger!!!
The Russian Director deserves credit for his imaginative, approach, in making the tank a 'living beast'!!!
I won't go into why I didn't give this film 5 STARS, for fear that it could influence the viewers' attitudes towards this movie. Dialog is in Russian with English subtitles - keep your flicker/remote handy to pause film, allowing you to read the script and process its meaning. Watch this movie with an open mind and decide for yourself, its pros and cons!!!
Having said that, I highly recommend this DVD.
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ちくてつ
5.0 out of 5 stars タイガー戦車のファンは楽しめます
Reviewed in Japan on September 11, 2015
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　たいへん安価だったので、英語版を購入しました。
　ストーリーは以前、レンタルで見ていましたから、「うーん」「うーん」という感じです。
　意味を求めても意味はないと思います。

　それよりも、Ｔ３４／８５が出てきます。
　ソ連を救った名戦車。
　対抗するタイガー戦車は１両です。

　ありえない超接近戦なのは、映画ですからね。
　１キロ先のＴ３４を簡単に撃破するタイガーの姿は、映画ではうまく描けません。

　それはともかくも、タイガーが戦車砲を放った時の迫力、空砲でしょうか？
　凄いですね。

　本物にかなり似せていると思います。
　ミリタリーオタクではないので、ディテールはわかりません。
　でも、タイガーの戦うシーンは感動的でした。
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