Hit Back

Hit Back
Hit Back
Directed by	Mikhail Tumanishvili
Written by	Yevgeni Mesyatsev
Starring	Boris Galkin; Vadim Spiridonov; Mihai Volontir; Anatoly Kuznetsov; Alexander Pyatkov; Yelena Glebova
Music by	Victor Babushkin
Production; company	Mosfilm
Release date	1981;
Running time	84 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian

Hit Back (Russian: Ответный ход, translit. Otvetnyy khod) is a 1981 Soviet action war movie directed by Mikhail Tumanishvili. It is a sequel to In the Zone of Special Attention.

Plot

This movie follows the story of a young soviet paratrooper Victor Tarasov - now a captain - who failed to protect the Chief of Staff of his regiment from 'enemy's' ambush while on big-scale 'war-play'; and now - with the help of soviet marines - it is his turn to hit back. And while soldiers play their games - generals play their own ones... ^[1]

Facts

It was one of the most attended movies in the Soviet Union in 1981, with an audience of approximately 31.3 million.^[2]

References

Notes

^ (in Russian)Soviet Cinematography Institute Today's cinematography, vol.3 – 1985
^ Leaders of distribution Archived 2012-05-10 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)

Bibliography

Peter Rollberg Historical dictionary of Russian and Soviet cinema. Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2009 – 793 p. ISBN 0-8108-6072-4, ISBN 978-0-8108-6072-8 (Page 742)

External links

Hit Back at IMDb
Hit Back at AllMovie

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[1] (in Russian)Soviet Cinematography Institute Today's cinematography, vol.3 – 1985

[2] Leaders of distribution Archived 2012-05-10 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)

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