Convoy 48
Fyodor Popov
Igor Yasulovich, Artyom Melnichuk, Anastasia Tsibizova, Artyom Alekseev, Alexander Yatsenko, Daria Ekamasova, Svetlana Smirnova
Film  (2017|Russia)  










Film (2017) 



Link scheda titolo + Trailer:
http://www.ruswv.com/item/697-convoy48
Link Trailer (in versione originale): https://vimeo.com/186263170
Synopsis: Based on real events
 "Convoy 48" is in production and will be ready for delivery in 2018. 
The film Convoy 48, Based on real events ,will tell the story of love and war life of several young women. Recent high school graduates, they survived the horrible blockade winter of 1941-1942 and were assigned to the 48th Steam Engine Convoy of the Transportation Commissariat's Special Reserve, stationed at the Sorting Depot (Leningrad Sorting Station of Moscow Railroad). The 30 steam engine brigades, staffed by girls who had just recently graduated from high school, and engine drivers removed from the front line and delivered to the besieged city by air, formed the backbone of the steam engine convoy that delivered 75% of all freight, ammunition and military equipment  the other 25% was brought by the ice "Road of Life". This is a film about the lives of girls in pigtails and courageous young men, in the setting of one of the most large-scale and important battles of World War II  the defense of Leningrad.