Road to Berlin (2015) on Netflix
Summer 1942. Communications officer Ogarkov is sentenced to death for cowardice, and a German attack interrupts the execution. He and his guard Dzhurabaev flee the German encirclement.
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Plot summary
In the summer of 1942, Lieutenant Sergey Ogarkov, a young communications officer, is accused of cowardice and sentenced to death by firing squad. Before the sentence can be carried out, a surprise German attack delays the execution, and Ogarkov and Dzhurabaev, the private assigned to guard him, are forced to flee the German encirclement. Dzhurabaev's orders are to bring the condemned man to headquarters, and the way there leads the two of them through several difficult situations and fights with the Germans. As they travel together, the guard and his prisoner learn to trust one another and become true friends.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Road to Berlin (2015)
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- The makers of Road to Berlin deliberately avoided famous actors. They looked for unknown performers with no television background so viewers would carry no outside associations into the war film, and followed a documentary style.
- Road to Berlin is the second adaptation of Emmanuil Kazakevich's novella Two in the Steppe; the first was made 51 years earlier, in 1962, and reached cinemas in May 1964.
