| The Brest Fortress | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Alexander Kott |
| Written by | Igor Ugolnikov Konstantin Vorobyov |
| Starring | Andrey Merzlikin Pavel Derevyanko Alexander Korshunov Alexey Kopashov |
| Studio | Belarusfilm |
| Release date(s) | June 22, 2010 |
| Running time | 138 minutes |
| Country | Belarus Russia |
| Language | Russian |
The Brest Fortress (Russian: Брестская крепость; translit. Brestskaia krepost) is a 2010 Russian war film.
It recounts the events surrounding the June 1941 Defense of Brest Fortress against invading Wehrmacht forces in the opening stages of Operation Barbarossa, Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II. The movie is accompanied by in medias res narration from the perspective of (then) 15-year old Sasha Akimov, and mainly centers on three resistance zones holding out against the protracted German siege, headed by regiment commander Pyotr Gavrilov, the political commissar Yefim Fomin, and the head of the 9th frontier outpost, Andrey Mitrofanovich Kizhevatov.
The plot follows the events as close to historical fact as possible, and the Brest Fortress Museum supervised the plot thoroughly.