The best Vasiliy Mishchenko’s history movies
We present our ranking of the best Vasiliy Mishchenko’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Vasiliy Mishchenko.
The Last Frontier
6.5/10
The story of the Podolsk cadets’ heroic stand outside Moscow in October 1941. Cadets were sent to the Ilyinsky line, fighting alongside units from the Soviet 43rd Army to hold back the German advance until reinforcements arrived. Hopelessly outnumbered, young men laid down their lives in a battle lasting almost two weeks to obstruct the far superior German forces advancing towards Moscow. Around 3,500 cadets and their commanding officers were sent to hold up the last line of defense outside Moscow. Most of them remained there for eternity.
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Streltsov
5.3/10
By the age of twenty, Eduard Streltsov has everything one can dream of: talent, fame and love. He is the rising star of Soviet football. The whole country, with bated breath, expects victory from the national team at the upcoming World Cup where Streltsov is to face the great Brazilian football player Pelé. However, two days before the departure of the team, the sportsman’s enemies manage to destroy his career. When the door to big sport seems to be closed for good, Streltsov has to re-enter the field and prove that he is a true champion who is worth everybody’s love.
The First Oscar
5.7/10
Based on a unique true story, “The First Oscar” tells about the filming of the first Academy Award-winning film from Russia — a documentary titled “Moscow Strikes Back,” shot in the trenches by a dozen student cinematographers in 1942, in the midst of World War II. In Hollywood, producer David Selznick had to stand against his powerful father-in-law Louis B. Mayer to introduce a new award category for Best Documentary and lobby for this new Oscar to be awarded to a film from an “enemy” country.
The Oath
5.4/10
An impressing war drama, a story of life and heroism of Naum Balapan - an academic psychiatrist, Doctor of Medicine, a chief doctor of the Sevastopol psychiatric hospital since 1922. With the help of his wife he saved dozens of innocent people from Genocide during Nazi Occupation until his tragic death in 1942.
