Белый тигр
The White Tiger (Belyy tigr) is a 2012 Russian movie by Karen Shakhnazarov. The story takes place in the end of World War II. The Soviet tanker Ivan Naydenov (Aleksey Vertkov) barely survived a battle with a mysterious ghostly-white German Tiger tank. Even though he suffers 3rd degree burns over 90% his body he miraculously awakens the next day completely healed. He has a link to tanks as if they were living creatures. Now his only goal is to destroy the seemingly supernatural white Tiger.
A great war film with heavy elements of the supernatural. Based on the book “Tankman, or the White Tiger” by Ilya Boyashov which is an homage to Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick”
Genre: War
Duration: 104mins
Format: 35mm
Director: Karen Shakhnazarov
Cast: Aleksey Vertkov, Vitaly Kishchenko, Valery Grishko, Vladimir Ilyn, Karl Kranzkowski, Christian Redl
Пресняков - Недотрога
Presnyakov - Touchy
1989
Russian pop song (“Red Wave”) from 1989. Featured in the war film “9th Company”.
“Public initiative can and must individualise, that is, it must take every disabled person separately, as a personality with his own special features, and adapt the character and form of its aid to these peculiarities and qualities of his. Finally, both the departmental and the public activities…
Ever wonder what a Soviet made action film was like?
This is “Solo Voyage” also known as “The Detached Mission”. And it is the Russian response to jingoistic cinema like “Rambo” or “Red Dawn”? This is that film
This movie is about an American treasure hunter named Jack Harrison who joins forces with a team of Soviet Marines ( or Naval Infantry) in order to thwart a plot by the CIA and military industrialists who plan to launch a nuclear missile to frame the Soviets and disrupt a disarmament summit… and maybe even start World War III! But Harrison, Major Shatokin, and a brave team Soviet troops are determined to stop this conspiracy of the elite and save the world from nuclear war!
Sound familiar? Its just, you are more used to having the Russian and American roles reversed.
This is the closest that you will ever get to see me in a photo. Ideally, my face is covered.
It makes me look a little dumpy but that is because it has some air in it.
This is me at Plan 9 Comics in Boone for their Halloween party.I was really too late to show up for the costume contest but they gave me 5th place anyway. I got a bag full of candy and some other stuff.
I didn’t get to stay too long but it was fun. Because of the mask no one recognized me and I kind of freaked everyone out by not talking. It was great. The real tragedy is that this is the only mask I can wear with my glasses. I had an actual Russian made gas mask but due to my bad eye sight and my HUGE head I could not wear it properly. One of the guys who comes to the shop was in the army and told me to be on the look out for wither a M24 gas mask or a M17 gas mask as they were made for people with eye issues.
Thanks to Jenny for snapping these for me!
My Tokarev TT-33.
I got bored so I thought I would take a picture of it with one of my shirts as a back drop. I think it turned out alright.
One of my favorite episodes of “Nu, Pogodi!” Which roughly translates from Russian as “Well, just you wait!”
This is sort of the Russian version of “Tom and Jerry” or “Coyote and Roadrunner”. It follows Volk (Wolf) in his attempts to capture Zayats (Hare). This one is called “New Years Celebration”. Volk pursues Zayats across the ski slopes and through a part.
This always makes me wonder about Cold War politics. How evil could the Russians have been, according to our politicians. They make cartoons for God’s sake!
