The Star
- IMDb link: 0326450
- IMDb rating: 6.9 (2,980 votes)
- Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama, War, History
- Director: Nikolay Lebedev, Nikolay Lebedev
- Cast: Igor Petrenko, Artyom Semakin, Aleksey Panin, Aleksey Kravchenko and others
- Release date: 6 May 2002
- Release year: 2002
- Runtime: 97 minutes
- Country: Russia
- Keywords: russia, russian, hyperrealism, epic, d day, tank, sniper, reconnaissance, death, vomiting
Plot:
The film is based on the eponymous book by Emmanuil Kazakevich. In the summer of 1944 the German armies prepare a massive tank division named "Viking" for an offensive against occupied Soviet land. The Red Army's special group of seven snipers named "Zvezda" is sent for a reconnaissance operation behind enemy lines. Two previous Soviet groups never returned. The seven Soviet soldiers know that they are going to an almost certain death for the sake of victory.