Fun fact: This “Battalion of Death” were the ones guarding the Tsar’s palace during the Revolution. When the rioters stormed the building, the Battalion surrendered immediately without firing a shot.
@@konsyjes Because they did nothing to the women and there is nothing to speak of, lol. Bolsheviks treated women a thousand times better than their "beloved" Tsar did. Another braindead victim of Cold War propaganda?
Agree. But i dink the commander burned the trench so that her soldiers can't stay in there, the only way is ... Hummm, run off to the back of the trench? Unless the fire lit was at the back of the trench.
Depends on the distance. The other side has to watch into the bright light. That disadvantage will dissapear when the distance is further, getting less blinded by the light.
I think the whole objective of that was to psychologically frighten the Germans by making them see silhouettes of all their soldiers while also forcing their own troops to run forward rather than stay in their own trenches. Or maybe make it easier for them to identify deserters I don't know this just showed up on my recommended so I haven't watched the movie.
This is the director Dmetry Meshkiev where is a great movie director where directed this, not for impressionating the germans, but for impressionating us!
There was a Russian women's brigade in WW1, but its performance was dismal. It is possible to read about it in The First World War" by Martin Gilbert, on page 346, where an American nurse volunteer wrote of Anna Bochareava's Women's Battalion of Death. She wrote; -"in honor of those women volunteers, they did go into the attack, they did go over the top, but not all of them. Many remained in the trenches, fainting and hysterical; others ran or crawled back to the rear. Bochkararova retreated with her decimated battalion' she was wrathful, heartbroken, but she had learned the truth; women were unfit to be soldiers." This was written by Florence Farmborogh on the Russian front.
Contrarily, women's regiment (Rani Jhansi Regt) of Indian National Army (a rebel nationalist army ) against the British Indian Army in WW2 performed well in combat...Although it was different from Trench warfare of ww1. INA was involved in Guerilla warfare which makes sense because in Trench warfare, it needed running in open field , requiring more speed and stamina, that women aren't cut out for, unlike in Guerilla warfare ,where u raid , scoot n run. So it's not that women r unfit to be soldiers...The kind of warfare depends. In modern warfare ,female soldiers can be as useful as male.
'THE UNWOMANLY FACE OF WAR' is a book by Svetlana Aleksiévitch where she gathers stories of soviet womans who fought on WWII. You can read the horror, despair and bravery of them in each page!
While their male counterparts could create councils or “soviets” to represent themselves when speaking with officers, Anna would not allow the women to question her authority. Having dismissed 1,500 women out of 2,000 recruits for “loose behavior”
That is basically how Russian communists won over women, workers, peasants, etc. People wanted democracy and Bolsheviks gave it to them. And, of course, women were finally given proper civil rights, education, etc. Tsarism had nothing to counter that, only religious propaganda about "God-given" Tsar.
@@Samar3n And 70 years later they still had the gulag plus 10 year waiting lists to buy a refrigerator while the rest of the world has too many. Let's not talk too well of the great Communist experiment lest ppl hunger for starvation yet again.
@@Samar3n Yes, communist made USSR one of most advance country in term of rights and freedoms at the moment. But they lost a lot of russian lands and split Russia into national republics. Like Ukraine and Chechen. That led to falling apart and wars. In tsar times country was more monolith. Russia would get all civil stuff with some next tsar. There were many progressive rulers of Russia.
It was a crazy idea to have women as infantry soldiers in WW1. A better idea would have been to deploy them as nurses, drivers, factory workers. farm workers. War is fought both on a military front as well as the Home Front growing food and manning workshops. In this video, some of the better educated women should have been given the rank of Second Lieutenant, ie, they were Officer class material.
Israeli women will not agree with you, they are all in it, men and women, and they will all go through it. Fighting women is not a modern thing, they have been with men in the thick of it since before Viking times.
It was pointless - the Russian army was already badly decomposed. Not wanting to fight, they deserted in whole regiments. And you can understand them - it was far from easy for their wives and children in the rear. The same trends were observed among the soldiers of Europe.
@@Shurikova666 Shurikova -- I agree with you. It was pointless slaughter. Do however, shake off those demonic numbers after your name! Place your soul in the hands of Jesus and not the Devil.
Sure. But the idea was really to shame the demoralized male soldiers to dare go into battle. IF these women soldiers really did some positive in the battlefield, was sheer bonus... The main thing, women dared, so hopefully men would dare them too..
@@barneydenstad2148 Barney -- I can see a better use of women in war. That is to tend the fields and bring in the harvest. That is truly a battle enough. Also, to look after the children and help in hospitals. I would refuse to countenance the drafting of any women in any infantry battalion in WW1.
Because they are woke rifles ... don't feel for needing to load so they don't - it's called fully-semi automatic - and basically point and shoot - because it looks like the one that killed JFK ... Lee Harvey Oswald didn't need more than one bullet anyway
Very authentic; even down to the Madsen machine gun, the film maker got it right. Contrary to the British and the French, the Russian use the Madsen extensively. 👍👍👍👍
Machine guns had that amount of kills in WW1, at least ok the Western front no man land had some cover by the crates, the Eastern front was more mobile so battles on just plains wasn't uncommon.
Respect or they might have had a personal relationship before enlisting or something. Personally I'm going with respect to the woman who is fighting on the frontline in a war where chemical warfare was not outlawed.
Sometimes a billet is not available for an officer and the officer is ordered to take an enlisted billet to cover those orders. Once the orders are complete or the person retires they resume their original rank. Not saying this happened but it's plausible. Also the hardware she has on her chest may have something equivalent to our Medal of Honor whereas all ranks regardless of rank salute the medal and anything said is respected, taken into consideration.
The officer salute to a corporal and taking orders from her because Corporal Bochkareva is a battalion commander. Therefore, the junior commander salutes the senior commander. Salutes to a military position, not rank.
@@johnvermillion7381 Yes. Also, she WAS named the commander of the new battalion, and was organizing it; and thus, de facto held a senior officers rank -
It is exactly why is important to remember it, they were an experiment, females don't usually participate in wars, and that was WW1, the worst war ever fought by mankind. And yet they survived... barely.
Any society (not just human, but any animal) lives until 1) males are ready to fight and to sacrifice their lives, and 2) females readily give birth to kids and raise them well. The West and any Westernised modern society lacks both of above and will perish likely in this century
I have no idea what this is trying to depict. Unlike WWII, it was unusual for Russia to have women's units at the front. One regiment did defend the Winter palace against the Bolsheviks.
It seems to me like a typical Russian propaganda film to promote the further militarization of Russia. In the sense that even the women sacrifice themselves for the homeland at the front.
It was pro-western liberal Kerensky who introduced these 'progressive' reforms and accepted women into Army who destroyed Russian army and the sate in just a few months.
The film about the women's battalion, by the way, has not become popular in Russia itself. Because the only thing that corresponds to reality in it is the very fact of the existence of a women's battalion. Unlike the short films about WWI "Osovets: Attack of the Dead", which was shot really based on the real circumstances of the first use of chemical weapons in history.
@@robertisham5279 It's hard to say. At least some of this could happen in reality, and some of it seems impossible. For example, women would not be able to defeat mens in bayonet combat.
It looks like they were low on ammo so that's why they had to fight hand to hand. One vet told me he's going to make sure he doesn't have anymore bullets before he fights hand to hand.
Given what happened through the first 89 years of the 20th century, I have zero respect for the old Soviet Union or any of the “soldiers” who fought for it. I have no more respect for them than I have for the Nazis. Both brought nothing but misery and suffering to Europe - at least the Nazis only lasted 12 years or so. Popular history depicts Russia with a degree of respect and honour - but when you scratch the surface and examine the politics, there’s nothing proud or respectful about the Russian history. I pity the ordinary Russian people who had to and still do live under such a despicable regime.
@@user-xh3wr1do7k The soldiers didn't have a choice. Do you feel the same about all the slaughter caused by American forces who invaded almost everyone and have over 100 over seas bases?
DAMN good Production Designer and Art Director! Notice the typewriters all use the pre-Revolution Russian alphabet, which would be the only ones available in 1917. Nice!
Sorry, you are wrong - 2:28 - there are no Ѣ and Ѳ letters, but Е, Ф and И instead. It's a post 1918 typewriter with modern letters and layout. The typewriter looks old - that is true.
@@steel-r_ua WOW! You've really got the Eagle Eye! Thanks for your correction, my friend. I should have figured that out, but I didn't think of it. Say, can you do me a favor? The next time you watch Doctor Zhivago, would you look at the menus in the early restaurant scene and tell me if those are using the appropriate pre-Revolution alphabet? I see some of the pre-Revolution characters, but I don't remember vetting everything against the formal alphabet to see if they were diligently using all of them as was done historically. Thanks!
@@adamchurvis1 Sorry mate, I just got triggered by such a positive comment about this movie. This pure-hearted story about women going to war against Germans, which totally did happen, is a tool of modern russia's imperia propaganda. They built a cult around their favorite part of WW2, how great and undefeatable they are and how they win battles no matter how many soldiers they lose. Yes, the movie is about WW1, not WW2, but it's against Germans - so no one cares in russia. It may look good, heck, the whole real-life story is good, but all I can see is how they teach people to happily go and die if emperor/government suggests them to. I'm not interested in Doctor Zhivago, but there are other good movies made in USSR and russia. I would recommend: "17 moments of spring" - good soothing tv show to watch during an Air Raid Alert - that's when I've finally watched it. "Election Day", "Radio Day", "What Men Talk About", "What Men Still Talk About" - good comedy movies made by "Kvartet I"
@@steel-r_ua Have you seen the late Larisa Shepitko's film "Wings"? I have it on DVD, and it's glorious. The film Doctor Zhivago was a beautiful, sprawling epic film with the only thing Russian being the author of the novel. The problem is, it bears little resemblance to the novel, which was more about Russia than a love story involving a flawless young blonde beauty. I think you might live the novel.
Their commander, Maria Bochkareva, is well cast - she did look almost exactly that way in real life! Fun fact, she met US president while in US! One famous feminist indeed!
@@FP194 obviously you did not studied and if you did you did it the wrong way. When you dont know what you are speaking please shut up and read real things. Russia's women's movement originated in the 19th century and gained force in the early 1900s, spearheaded by female educators, doctors, and activists. They championed educational, legal, and economic equality and sought to improve daily life for working-class women.
Agreed. Their attempts aren't nothing, but their results were. It shows a weird system of priorities, as if Russia continuing to be "russia" was infinitely more important than being able to continue to HAVE a nation of any kind.
I wonder why...maybe because their fame does not lie in battle victories (although they did pretty okay-ish for an underequipped battalion), but rather about women having a chance to actually do something more than just to be forced traditional house wives. Black regiments in US Civil War is the same case...its not about those regiments being exceptionally good at battlefield, but an inspiration.
No lies, there will be no mistakes. No crime, there'll be no investigation. No girls there'll be no life on this earth. No pole, there'll be no paradise to created the souls. Everything is here on earth, and the heaven and hell too, someones started to gets from this earth only. Truly. ❤.........
My grandfather Denis Petrovich Potapenkov soldier of WW1. Awarded 3 Georgian crosses .. 1916 was poisoned by German gas iprit.survived. Became invalid. During Civil War didn't fight for any side. Died accidentally in 1942 ..in age 62. Soldier and son of Mother Russia 🇷🇺 NYC 2024
For a modern movie, I can't believe they were still using explosion and bullet sound effects from the 1970's. I remember all those sounds from when I was a kid 🙄🤔🙄
They call her Младший унтер-офицер (Mladshiy unter-ofitzer), which translates to "younger non-commisioned officer", so indeed it seems to correspond to corporal. My guess (without watching the whole film or knowing the history of the unit) would be that, since she was a woman, they didn't want to grant her a higher rank so she wouldn't outrank the men.
@o.k.2968 Так. Только часть этих пленных были захвачены в собственных деревнях или по пути на призывные пункты. Непосредственно на границе стояло лишь 2 млн. 700 тыс. красноармейцев. Немцы, получается, захватили всю Красную Армию. ))) И еще: в уставах РККА не где не прописано "стоять насмерть и сдохнуть славно". Так и было - расстрелял боеприпасы и можешь сдаваться. Только вот немцы к пленным относились варварски, а красноармейцы этого просто не знали. Уж поверь - предпочли бы они быстро сдохнуть безоружным в бою, чем медленно рабом-унтерменшем.
If they want to go fight in a real war, but are afraid to loose theyre hair, that's a nice help for here to empower there spirits. Cause when they arrived they may have a superficial motivation, but at the first wounded in the company they will run away !😮
The horror that the Wehmacht and the SS left behind, especially in the USSR, also encouraged women to fight. As paramedics and fighters. They are still honored and named far too little today. Exceptions are female snipers. In thoughts of all the brave women who lost their lives ❤
I swear the woman holding the rifle in the screen shot looks like Andrea Martin from the old SCTV shows. So much so, I thought this must be a comedy/parody.
hheh Antony Osendowski was an eyewitness to the 1917 revolution in Russia. The description of people's demoralization in the book "Lenin" is better than this film.
I would advise you not to study the history of women soldiers of the Soviet Union, based on dubious writings, anti-Soviets deployed in Western Europe and the United States. Study it from historical documents. And know one fact - outspoken Nazis also received the Nobel Prize in Literature.
The Soviets inherited some amazing architecture from imperial Russia, they seemed incapable of creating anything long lasting, ascetically pleasing or worthwhile themselves. A Stunning scenes and a great movie.
@@tolmine3545 I guess nigh witches were also propaganda...in fact Soviets never encircled Stalingard...Germans just fell for their propaganda and surrendered to no one.
Фантастическая фантазия авторов фильма. Авантюру с женским батальоном затеяло Временное Правительство чтобы взбодрить уставшее от бессмысленной бойни население России. Это же правительство одновременно развалило российскую армию, введя выборность командиров.
As a general rule of thumb, go by the 'rule of tens and threes'. Squad = 10 Platoon = 30 Company = 100 Batallion = 300 Regiment = 1000 Brigade = 3000 Division = 10000 Corps = 30000 Army = 100000
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The produckton values are excellent. It looks like it was shot on S16. I know they're telling a story and it's not real life, but wouldn't Corp. Bochkareva have a chance to respond to the charges before being declared guilty?
Although I can understand only the words that are similar to italian ones, I can say that the passion in russian movies (and soviet too) is always overwhelming.
Wow , what a great looking film, very intense .It is a beautiful thing to be able to have this expressionism coming out of Russia after not too many decades ago we saw nothing , excellent cast , recommend Stalingrad . Remember Stalingrad.
who was left to dirty the dishes? men of fighting age or ability were probably conscripted and sent to the trenches, besides, if you weren't in the army was there any food to be cooked in the first place?
15:11 is what the opposing force sees over the fields - actually, even from a much greater distance, often in lesser visibility conditions, while there's no time to take a proper look... What they see is just soldiers in uniforms - more importantly, the enemies aiming to end their lives. In the given regard, sexes and ages indeed doesn't matter the slightest on the battlefield.
The women's battalion was created for propaganda purposes. Russian russians wanted to "shame the men" who were already very disappointed in this war and just wanted to return home, where the chaotic seizure of land plots began (the Russian soldiers were mostly peasants). It didn't affect the men in any way, and these women were ridiculed. "A double-barreled civilian-style shotgun" was one of the nicknames of these unfortunate and naive, in fact, women. Actually this movie. In Russia, it has been criticized by the left and in particular by the Communists. As well as film critics. Or it went unnoticed. It was a failure, in every way, the film.
One woman said she was “Christian “ and the subtitles said, “Peasant.” And according to historians that I read as a history major, the Russian army was pretty poorly equipped; ie there were three soldiers to every rifle.
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Fun fact: This “Battalion of Death” were the ones guarding the Tsar’s palace during the Revolution. When the rioters stormed the building, the Battalion surrendered immediately without firing a shot.
Ive heard something very different about them
They did not care for tsar bro
There was also about a company of cossacks who fled awol. And we won't speak of what the bolsheviks did to the women.
@@konsyjes Because they did nothing to the women and there is nothing to speak of, lol. Bolsheviks treated women a thousand times better than their "beloved" Tsar did. Another braindead victim of Cold War propaganda?
I'm going to fact check that because I have read very different things
Edit: yeah I'm not seeing that anywhere but I will keep looking
Setting fire to the hay and silhouetting yourself wasn't the brightest of tactics.
Agree. But i dink the commander burned the trench so that her soldiers
can't stay in there, the only way is ... Hummm, run off to the back of the
trench? Unless the fire lit was at the back of the trench.
Depends on the distance. The other side has to watch into the bright light. That disadvantage will dissapear when the distance is further, getting less blinded by the light.
I think the whole objective of that was to psychologically frighten the Germans by making them see silhouettes of all their soldiers while also forcing their own troops to run forward rather than stay in their own trenches. Or maybe make it easier for them to identify deserters I don't know this just showed up on my recommended so I haven't watched the movie.
Could have been to keep them from retreating. They were women and did not know if they would run or not, that is a good way to make sure they don't.
This is the director Dmetry Meshkiev where is a great movie director where directed this, not for impressionating the germans, but for impressionating us!
There was a Russian women's brigade in WW1, but its performance was dismal. It is possible to read about it in The First World War" by Martin Gilbert, on page 346, where an American nurse volunteer wrote of Anna Bochareava's Women's Battalion of Death. She wrote; -"in honor of those women volunteers, they did go into the attack, they did go over the top, but not all of them. Many remained in the trenches, fainting and hysterical; others ran or crawled back to the rear. Bochkararova retreated with her decimated battalion' she was wrathful, heartbroken, but she had learned the truth; women were unfit to be soldiers." This was written by Florence Farmborogh on the Russian front.
I read they were decimated. Figures the bravery and patriotism were overplayed.
Who else besides Martin Gilbert can confirm this? It would be good to read similar comments from Russian authors of those times.
Contrarily, women's regiment (Rani Jhansi Regt) of Indian National Army (a rebel nationalist army ) against the British Indian Army in WW2 performed well in combat...Although it was different from Trench warfare of ww1. INA was involved in Guerilla warfare which makes sense because in Trench warfare, it needed running in open field , requiring more speed and stamina, that women aren't cut out for, unlike in Guerilla warfare ,where u raid , scoot n run. So it's not that women r unfit to be soldiers...The kind of warfare depends. In modern warfare ,female soldiers can be as useful as male.
The entire Russian Army’s performance in WW1 was dismal with mass desertions so you really can’t expect the women to perform better than the men.
@@matthewhuszarik4173 you can. because you select the best few hundred women out of millions compaired to like every second male in a certain age.
'THE UNWOMANLY FACE OF WAR' is a book by Svetlana Aleksiévitch where she gathers stories of soviet womans who fought on WWII. You can read the horror, despair and bravery of them in each page!
While their male counterparts could create councils or “soviets” to represent themselves when speaking with officers, Anna would not allow the women to question her authority. Having dismissed 1,500 women out of 2,000 recruits for “loose behavior”
That is basically how Russian communists won over women, workers, peasants, etc. People wanted democracy and Bolsheviks gave it to them. And, of course, women were finally given proper civil rights, education, etc. Tsarism had nothing to counter that, only religious propaganda about "God-given" Tsar.
@@Samar3n And 70 years later they still had the gulag plus 10 year waiting lists to buy a refrigerator while the rest of the world has too many. Let's not talk too well of the great Communist experiment lest ppl hunger for starvation yet again.
@@Samar3nhistory shows bowing to the Bolsheviks was a mistake. They were better off with the Tsar and having religion.
@@Samar3n Yes, communist made USSR one of most advance country in term of rights and freedoms at the moment. But they lost a lot of russian lands and split Russia into national republics. Like Ukraine and Chechen. That led to falling apart and wars. In tsar times country was more monolith. Russia would get all civil stuff with some next tsar. There were many progressive rulers of Russia.
They killed Wilhelm twice in this movie!
The whole soundscape was pretty hilarious. The sound of grenade pins being pulled and the wilhelm screams...
nope, it was three times :D
For those of you searching for the entire film, it's name is The Battalion.
It was a crazy idea to have women as infantry soldiers in WW1. A better idea would have been to deploy them as nurses, drivers, factory workers. farm workers.
War is fought both on a military front as well as the Home Front growing food and manning workshops.
In this video, some of the better educated women should have been given the rank of Second Lieutenant, ie, they were Officer class material.
Israeli women will not agree with you, they are all in it, men and women, and they will all go through it. Fighting women is not a modern thing, they have been with men in the thick of it since before Viking times.
It was pointless - the Russian army was already badly decomposed. Not wanting to fight, they deserted in whole regiments. And you can understand them - it was far from easy for their wives and children in the rear. The same trends were observed among the soldiers of Europe.
@@Shurikova666 Shurikova -- I agree with you. It was pointless slaughter. Do however, shake off those demonic numbers after your name! Place your soul in the hands of Jesus and not the Devil.
Sure. But the idea was really to shame the demoralized male soldiers to dare go into battle. IF these women soldiers really did some positive in the battlefield, was sheer bonus... The main thing, women dared, so hopefully men would dare them too..
@@barneydenstad2148 Barney -- I can see a better use of women in war. That is to tend the fields and bring in the harvest. That is truly a battle enough. Also, to look after the children and help in hospitals. I would refuse to countenance the drafting of any women in any infantry battalion in WW1.
that Wilhelm scream is so epic even made it into this movie at 34:30
Also a scream at 33:59
@@61Slughi got to get those uses in kkkk
you think only onece or twice? :-D
@Siddich think they prob used it bunch of times
Post production: How many wilhelm screams should we use?
Director: Yes.
Lmfao
I love how they fire the rifles as though they never have to be reloaded.
Because they are woke rifles ... don't feel for needing to load so they don't - it's called fully-semi automatic - and basically point and shoot - because it looks like the one that killed JFK ... Lee Harvey Oswald didn't need more than one bullet anyway
Very authentic; even down to the Madsen machine gun, the film maker got it right. Contrary to the British and the French, the Russian use the Madsen extensively. 👍👍👍👍
Wait, so a small number of Russians mowing down swarms of German soldiers? Historical accuracy was the first casualty here...
Depends on who has the water cooled machine-gun...
Yes. Just before biology.
Pretty much like every US war film then?
@@B4MBI72 sure
Machine guns had that amount of kills in WW1, at least ok the Western front no man land had some cover by the crates, the Eastern front was more mobile so battles on just plains wasn't uncommon.
Why did an officer salute to a corporal? And taking orders from her?
Respect or they might have had a personal relationship before enlisting or something. Personally I'm going with respect to the woman who is fighting on the frontline in a war where chemical warfare was not outlawed.
Sometimes a billet is not available for an officer and the officer is ordered to take an enlisted billet to cover those orders. Once the orders are complete or the person retires they resume their original rank. Not saying this happened but it's plausible. Also the hardware she has on her chest may have something equivalent to our Medal of Honor whereas all ranks regardless of rank salute the medal and anything said is respected, taken into consideration.
many many reasons : MP corporal , medical personel, specialists in certain field TELLING the above rank about this field decisions
The officer salute to a corporal and taking orders from her because Corporal Bochkareva is a battalion commander. Therefore, the junior commander salutes the senior commander. Salutes to a military position, not rank.
@@johnvermillion7381 Yes. Also, she WAS named the commander of the new battalion, and was organizing it; and thus, de facto held a senior officers rank -
These folks salute WAY better than American actors.
the movie is better than american films
It's all dramatic when women do this but men do this every century and don't even think about it.
Unfortunately that is part of the problem; they do not think about the consequences.
They all have far bigger balls than you though, take you misogyny back to mommy and cry about it to her.
It is exactly why is important to remember it, they were an experiment, females don't usually participate in wars, and that was WW1, the worst war ever fought by mankind. And yet they survived... barely.
Any society (not just human, but any animal) lives until
1) males are ready to fight and to sacrifice their lives, and
2) females readily give birth to kids and raise them well.
The West and any Westernised modern society lacks both of above and will perish likely in this century
century? Every year :D
The hair cutting was powerful.
it shows how women are easily manipulated. people in fact are. we saw that witht the STILL experimental mrna therapies all the low brains did.
Whats the point of short hair?
@@Altinget Mainly hygiene, easier to control lice etc.
@@Altinget "Eine Laus, der Todt"
@@Altingethigyene, trenches we're full of lyce, bugs and parasites. Also likely to make women stand less between male troops.
I have no idea what this is trying to depict. Unlike WWII, it was unusual for Russia to have women's units at the front. One regiment did defend the Winter palace against the Bolsheviks.
It seems to me like a typical Russian propaganda film to promote the further militarization of Russia. In the sense that even the women sacrifice themselves for the homeland at the front.
1st Russian Women's Battalion of Death. They and the 1st Petrograd Battalion we're all female batallions that engaged in combat during world war 1.
It was pro-western liberal Kerensky who introduced these 'progressive' reforms and accepted women into Army who destroyed Russian army and the sate in just a few months.
This is that regiment
@@robertisham5279 you are correct with most female batallions, but the 2 i mentioned faced direct combat
The film about the women's battalion, by the way, has not become popular in Russia itself. Because the only thing that corresponds to reality in it is the very fact of the existence of a women's battalion. Unlike the short films about WWI "Osovets: Attack of the Dead", which was shot really based on the real circumstances of the first use of chemical weapons in history.
@@robertisham5279 It's hard to say. At least some of this could happen in reality, and some of it seems impossible. For example, women would not be able to defeat mens in bayonet combat.
*They all look rather bourgeoise if you ask me.*
Not asking you
@@davidcolley7714 *Not a counter argument.*
@@anthonyhuber-permanentlyre7808 It is not an argument, it is my reply to a rather stupid observation
@@davidcolley7714 *It's a keen observation of women drees, in a Stalin led country.*
I doubt the local commissar would approve.
@@anthonyhuber-permanentlyre7808 this is still set in imperial Russia
Fantastic stuff! I'd love to see the whole movie.
Leaving your trench to attack a attaking force to engage in hand to hand combat seams a bit silly.
Totally stupid, but that was the way everyone did it.
It looks like they were low on ammo so that's why they had to fight hand to hand. One vet told me he's going to make sure he doesn't have anymore bullets before he fights hand to hand.
@@adtvtxvafaee9799 your vet is a total BSer, nobody does hand to hand combat now.
Given what happened through the first 89 years of the 20th century, I have zero respect for the old Soviet Union or any of the “soldiers” who fought for it. I have no more respect for them than I have for the Nazis. Both brought nothing but misery and suffering to Europe - at least the Nazis only lasted 12 years or so. Popular history depicts Russia with a degree of respect and honour - but when you scratch the surface and examine the politics, there’s nothing proud or respectful about the Russian history. I pity the ordinary Russian people who had to and still do live under such a despicable regime.
@@user-xh3wr1do7k The soldiers didn't have a choice. Do you feel the same about all the slaughter caused by American forces who invaded almost everyone and have over 100 over seas bases?
Russia has always been a strange backwater.
США дыра
backwater its your mother
You haven't been to Detroit yet.
@@Shurikova666 That is correct.
Corporals in command of battalions. That was their first mistake.
It was a company size.
Called 'officer'.... th-cam.com/video/roxvEqrZLC4/w-d-xo.html (although some corporal made it to Fuhrer...)
Germany had a corporal in charge of the whole country.
@@PhansiKhongoloza Yeah, and see how well that went...
@@Jack10930 It went rather well actually. Right up to point Britain and France declared war on them for no reason.
DAMN good Production Designer and Art Director! Notice the typewriters all use the pre-Revolution Russian alphabet, which would be the only ones available in 1917. Nice!
Sorry, you are wrong - 2:28 - there are no Ѣ and Ѳ letters, but Е, Ф and И instead.
It's a post 1918 typewriter with modern letters and layout.
The typewriter looks old - that is true.
@@steel-r_ua WOW! You've really got the Eagle Eye! Thanks for your correction, my friend. I should have figured that out, but I didn't think of it.
Say, can you do me a favor? The next time you watch Doctor Zhivago, would you look at the menus in the early restaurant scene and tell me if those are using the appropriate pre-Revolution alphabet? I see some of the pre-Revolution characters, but I don't remember vetting everything against the formal alphabet to see if they were diligently using all of them as was done historically.
Thanks!
@@adamchurvis1 Sorry mate, I just got triggered by such a positive comment about this movie.
This pure-hearted story about women going to war against Germans, which totally did happen, is a tool of modern russia's imperia propaganda.
They built a cult around their favorite part of WW2, how great and undefeatable they are and how they win battles no matter how many soldiers they lose.
Yes, the movie is about WW1, not WW2, but it's against Germans - so no one cares in russia.
It may look good, heck, the whole real-life story is good,
but all I can see is how they teach people to happily go and die if emperor/government suggests them to.
I'm not interested in Doctor Zhivago, but there are other good movies made in USSR and russia.
I would recommend:
"17 moments of spring" - good soothing tv show to watch during an Air Raid Alert - that's when I've finally watched it.
"Election Day", "Radio Day", "What Men Talk About", "What Men Still Talk About" - good comedy movies made by "Kvartet I"
@@steel-r_ua Have you seen the late Larisa Shepitko's film "Wings"? I have it on DVD, and it's glorious.
The film Doctor Zhivago was a beautiful, sprawling epic film with the only thing Russian being the author of the novel. The problem is, it bears little resemblance to the novel, which was more about Russia than a love story involving a flawless young blonde beauty. I think you might live the novel.
@@adamchurvis1 Hmm, the one from 1966, maybe I'll watch it, thanks.
Thank you. I haven't laughed this heartily in a long time!
Their commander, Maria Bochkareva, is well cast - she did look almost exactly that way in real life!
Fun fact, she met US president while in US! One famous feminist indeed!
There was no feminists back then especially in Russia
@@FP194 Only Communists - which these days is the same.
@@ibubezi7685 Bingo!
She was killed by the reds.
@@FP194 obviously you did not studied and if you did you did it the wrong way.
When you dont know what you are speaking please shut up and read real things.
Russia's women's movement originated in the 19th century and gained force in the early 1900s, spearheaded by female educators, doctors, and activists. They championed educational, legal, and economic equality and sought to improve daily life for working-class women.
tbh these women get too much praise for doin a lot less well than male units
Agreed. Their attempts aren't nothing, but their results were. It shows a weird system of priorities, as if Russia continuing to be "russia" was infinitely more important than being able to continue to HAVE a nation of any kind.
I wonder why...maybe because their fame does not lie in battle victories (although they did pretty okay-ish for an underequipped battalion), but rather about women having a chance to actually do something more than just to be forced traditional house wives.
Black regiments in US Civil War is the same case...its not about those regiments being exceptionally good at battlefield, but an inspiration.
Brilliant realistic movie, good acting and directing. Shows war for what it is..an extreme waste of human life for the ambitions of a few.
no wait you are older than 12
That was amazing, for a budget aswell the story and people, i was invested it was great, decent job
Thanks for bringing me back im watching again!!!
No lies, there will be no mistakes. No crime, there'll be no investigation. No girls there'll be no life on this earth.
No pole, there'll be no paradise to created the souls.
Everything is here on earth, and the heaven and hell too, someones started to gets from this earth only. Truly. ❤.........
Battlefield 1 in The name of The Czar
They shall never know.
Это из книги о Марии Бочкаревой, 4 Гергия. Редкая книга❤❤❤
My stomach turned, seeing those gorgeous women getting their hair cut. 😢😢😢
My grandfather Denis Petrovich Potapenkov soldier of WW1.
Awarded 3 Georgian crosses ..
1916 was poisoned by German gas iprit.survived.
Became invalid. During Civil War didn't fight for any side.
Died accidentally in 1942 ..in age 62.
Soldier and son of Mother Russia 🇷🇺
NYC 2024
For a modern movie, I can't believe they were still using explosion and bullet sound effects from the 1970's. I remember all those sounds from when I was a kid 🙄🤔🙄
Post production: So using the wilhelm scream is the same price using it once or 9999 times?
Director: Use it 9999 times!
А что за Вильгельм? Это кто?
Why would a corporal be in command of a battalion? Is it a bad translation?
Agreed. That is WEIRD. Battalion commanders are officers, majors.
They call her Младший унтер-офицер (Mladshiy unter-ofitzer), which translates to "younger non-commisioned officer", so indeed it seems to correspond to corporal.
My guess (without watching the whole film or knowing the history of the unit) would be that, since she was a woman, they didn't want to grant her a higher rank so she wouldn't outrank the men.
@@lawrencewood289 It was a democratized battalion. More precisely, it was the command corresponding to the company, 200 bayonets
Foreigners against Russia must remember:
Russians never give up!
@o.k.2968 Так. Только часть этих пленных были захвачены в собственных деревнях или по пути на призывные пункты. Непосредственно на границе стояло лишь 2 млн. 700 тыс. красноармейцев. Немцы, получается, захватили всю Красную Армию. )))
И еще: в уставах РККА не где не прописано "стоять насмерть и сдохнуть славно". Так и было - расстрелял боеприпасы и можешь сдаваться. Только вот немцы к пленным относились варварски, а красноармейцы этого просто не знали. Уж поверь - предпочли бы они быстро сдохнуть безоружным в бою, чем медленно рабом-унтерменшем.
Это не правда.
Yeah, Russians are known for hitting their heads against a stone wall.
Gee, watching this you would never have known the Russian Army, was decisively beaten in WW1
Нахера ты это написал?
Поражение? А разве немецкие войска взяли столицу страны? С ними лишь подписали мирный договор, хоть и преждевременный. Но о поражении речь не шла.
nah stop caping
@@tarackanov Yes, a peace treaty is a defeat. Especcialy since the eastern front wast a top priority for the germans.
Excellent acting. Nice portrayal of human emotion. Very good cinematography. Who cares if "that's the way it happened" ?? .... very entertaining.
that's russian film!
@@extanegautham8950 so?
A womans pride is in her hair,what s shame to shear these beautiful women!
If they want to go fight in a real war, but are afraid to loose theyre hair, that's a nice help for here to empower there spirits. Cause when they arrived they may have a superficial motivation, but at the first wounded in the company they will run away !😮
Helps cut down on lice and time spent maintaining it.
Old soldier here, great movie., kudos
Operation Black Widow, Russian Women Are The True Patriotic Bears
Krasser Film - Danke - Und für ein Ende des Krieges in der Ukraine. Danke aus Deutschland.
The horror that the Wehmacht and the SS left behind, especially in the USSR, also encouraged women to fight. As paramedics and fighters. They are still honored and named far too little today. Exceptions are female snipers. In thoughts of all the brave women who lost their lives ❤
Wrong war
did you even watch at least some minutes of the video?
Wrong war buddy you are thinking about WW2. That was a WW1 movie you just seen no SS was made yet
It was WW1
I understood your statment, but not related with the movie
I swear the woman holding the rifle in the screen shot looks like Andrea Martin from the old SCTV shows. So much so, I thought this must be a comedy/parody.
exactly what I thought too lol
Yup. She's a dead ringer for Andrea Martin.
Very noticed, but yep
Thats why I clicked! LOL
весь фильм - хренотень. Изучайте историю и поймете это
Однозначно - хренотень!
NPnbEt
Thank you,very fake
@@plf2813😂😂😂
а спасти рядового райна не хренотень?или ярость не хернотень?
Как называется фильмы скажите пожалуйста
Battalion (2015)
Спосибо
Tell the Russians to bring back Anna the Detective. I watched every episode here on Yt.
I give these ladies a thumbs up 👍 they fought bravely defending there motherland.
Why was the commanding "officer" of an entire Battalion a Corporal? Or did Coporal mean something different in Imperial Russia?
hheh Antony Osendowski was an eyewitness to the 1917 revolution in Russia. The description of people's demoralization in the book "Lenin" is better than this film.
Russian women who fought against the nazis were neglected and frown upon. The Unwomanly Face of War is a good read.
I would advise you not to study the history of women soldiers of the Soviet Union, based on dubious writings, anti-Soviets deployed in Western Europe and the United States. Study it from historical documents. And know one fact - outspoken Nazis also received the Nobel Prize in Literature.
This movie is set during ww1, not ww2. There were no Nazis in ww1.
@@Shurikova666 I assume by "historical documents" you mean the state-approved writings made by communist party propagandists?
Slavic woman: Strong Like Bool, Beautiful Like Butterfly
The Soviets inherited some amazing architecture from imperial Russia, they seemed incapable of creating anything long lasting, ascetically pleasing or worthwhile themselves.
A Stunning scenes and a great movie.
Elaborate please? 600 000+ servicewomen of ussr army in ww2 are laughing at u though time. Especially soviet female snipers.
@@microvvaveoven Soviet legendary snipers were a propaganda responding to the vicious finnish snipers.
@@tolmine3545 Do u have proof to that or just spouting nonsense?
@@tolmine3545 I guess nigh witches were also propaganda...in fact Soviets never encircled Stalingard...Germans just fell for their propaganda and surrendered to no one.
Extremely violent towards the end. Chilling.
do you really think war is not extremely violent every single time? 🤔
@@kittytrail it is. When all negotiations fail, people settle their disputes by might. Sad, but true.
Lies, lies, lies... how about a true movie from the past? Without lying?
офигеть, какая то чмоня с именем 4CfxthXBhVqTjMHIPIwXjIW6GhKmh0 знает всю правду. наверное, помнит, так как сам участвовал в тех событиях!
Doesn't sell.
Tell that to Hollywood....
"Go and see" directed by Gleb Panfilov
THe battalion is hostirical.
Фантастическая фантазия авторов фильма. Авантюру с женским батальоном затеяло Временное Правительство чтобы взбодрить уставшее от бессмысленной бойни население России. Это же правительство одновременно развалило российскую армию, введя выборность командиров.
Vere good movie I'm from India 🇮🇳 🇷🇺
Those stock sounds are hilarious, Wilhelm died three times :D
the random SNORRI cams make this hilarious
17:00 the marching by those actors is top notch.
Battalion is roughly 800-1000. Look more like a company.
Depends where you come from.
led by a corporal too
Depends on how many minutes a Battalion was in no mans land.
A Russian infantry battalion is 500. But that is an ideal one on paper. In reality, you are lucky if you have a 300 men in your battalion.
As a general rule of thumb, go by the 'rule of tens and threes'.
Squad = 10
Platoon = 30
Company = 100
Batallion = 300
Regiment = 1000
Brigade = 3000
Division = 10000
Corps = 30000
Army = 100000
The only army I know of where an officers salutes a corporal (or any subordinate first). Didn't these people get any advice?
This is a political order of the Democrats against the Communists. Don't look for logic
What a switch of facts
❤bum bum buuuuuummmm! Quanto sangue versato per nulla...Bang bang badabang!! Quante anime morte....
Quanto spreco di Persone: magari tra di loro poteva esserci il futuro campione del mondo dei 100 metri piani, oppure il ciclista che poteva vincere Tour, Giro e Vuelta, oppure una nuotatrice che poteva báttere Federica Pellegrini, oppure una cantante di jazz come Ella, oppure un batterista piu bravo di Buddy Rich!! Che spreco di anime
How they dealt with spiders and mice? :) Probably, they run away with guns in their hands.
When your woman says: if you get to go to war so do i sign me up!!!
Good movie
Love those imperial Russian uniforms though! Wish they would go back to them !!!
Good point!
The produckton values are excellent. It looks like it was shot on S16. I know they're telling a story and it's not real life, but wouldn't Corp. Bochkareva have a chance to respond to the charges before being declared guilty?
Although I can understand only the words that are similar to italian ones, I can say that the passion in russian movies (and soviet too) is always overwhelming.
Wow , what a great looking film, very intense .It is a beautiful thing to be able to have this expressionism coming out of Russia after not too many decades ago we saw nothing , excellent cast , recommend Stalingrad . Remember Stalingrad.
can't remember what I never lived through. I guess you'll just have to live with history repeating itself
When all these women went to war who washed all the dishes?.... Russian kitchens must've been a right mess.
who was left to dirty the dishes? men of fighting age or ability were probably conscripted and sent to the trenches, besides, if you weren't in the army was there any food to be cooked in the first place?
captured germans were dealing with dishes
Trying to Be a Blind Propaganda Cheap Action Film and then Occasion Reality
So Strange and Amateur
Some Beautiful Production
TH-cam Soundmixing
If you prefer dishonor to war, you will get both war and dishonor. Russia has finally learnt the lesson, having failed the exam in 1917.
What a stupid name for a military unit 😂
Этоти батальоны показывают что идти в атаку могут и наши женщины, но воевать нужно мужчинам.
Да чушь показали. Тем более с рукапашной. Баб всех положат в таком бою.
The first casualty of Russian war movies is always going to be historical accuracy.
Are you implying American ones are any better?
It's different in Hollywood, isn't it?
Это касается не только России, каждая страна тянет на себя одеяло.
u missed with american ones homie
Without knowing a thing about this movie, the opening scene, screamed Russia. As a child I watched dr Zhivago, and REDS,
why are the russians charging out of the trench to meet the german attack like it's 500 BC?
because infantry wave attacks were employed up to WW2 by all countries, and especially during WW1 trench warfare.
Looks good
Which movie
Battalion (2015)
@@MYKOLA_SS Thanks
Rambo and Chuck Norris would shit their pants
Что за дополнительные звуковые эффекты????????????
Womens fighting with mens and winining 🤣😂
its easy to win against such sissy as u 😉
So the Russians brought guns to a knife fight and used boyonets. Genious
Horrifying: the horrors of war!
They got their moneys worth for all the Wilhelm Screams. I heard 3.
Classic Poutine propaganda. Never has worked will never work.
lmao what putin have to do with that?with same sucess u can name any western movie macrons propaganda or bidens
@@unnamedsoldier5446 Everything is under control in Russia, their own words...
@@NicolasTheondine propagandahead
15:11 is what the opposing force sees over the fields - actually, even from a much greater distance, often in lesser visibility conditions, while there's no time to take a proper look...
What they see is just soldiers in uniforms - more importantly, the enemies aiming to end their lives.
In the given regard, sexes and ages indeed doesn't matter the slightest on the battlefield.
It was quite good, until the battle scenes started.
the sound effects are SOOO BAD
Very touching !
The women's battalion was created for propaganda purposes. Russian russians wanted to "shame the men" who were already very disappointed in this war and just wanted to return home, where the chaotic seizure of land plots began (the Russian soldiers were mostly peasants). It didn't affect the men in any way, and these women were ridiculed. "A double-barreled civilian-style shotgun" was one of the nicknames of these unfortunate and naive, in fact, women. Actually this movie. In Russia, it has been criticized by the left and in particular by the Communists. As well as film critics. Or it went unnoticed. It was a failure, in every way, the film.
Why would the left criticize a man bashing movie? I thought they like that sort of crap?
One woman said she was “Christian “ and the subtitles said, “Peasant.” And according to historians that I read as a history major, the Russian army was pretty poorly equipped; ie there were three soldiers to every rifle.
Because "крестьянин" translates as "peasant", not as "Christian"
That's right, although the word христианин (Christian) is very similar and крестьянин is generally thought to derive from it.
@@nicoc6387 irrelevant to the original post that implied wrong translation
How could a woman be able to do this job? This should be illegal
All the sacrifice for having their children found the next fascist state...Karma is a bitch.