The Mannerheim Line
MovieTitle | Линия Маннергейма |
User score | 0 |
Release date | Dec 18, 1940 |
Genre | Documentary |
Director | Vasili Belayev , Leonid Varlamov , Nikolay Komarevtsev , Valeri Solovtsov |
Production country | Soviet Union |
Production companies | Leningrad Documentary Film Studio |
Run time | 74 min. |
Produced by the Soviet Union to justify its 1939-40 Winter War campaign in Finland, this outstanding documentary---more than any other such cinematic record---visually depicts the much vaunted Mannerheim Line in all its actual emplacements, as seen but two weeks after their capture, and as filmed by Red Army combat photographers onsite, directed by Vasili Belayev.