Take a look at this live action trailer for War Thunder titled “Victory is Ours” which commemorates the heroism of all the participants of the Great Patriotic War.
Yes, this is a video game. Available online for FREE! Here is what the creators say about the mini-movie:
The idea and the plot of the movie “Victory is ours,” was born at the beginning of this year. Developing the idea further, on the eve of the anniversary of “Victory day” it was important for us to show the war from the inside, through the eyes of a Soviet soldier. It was therefore decided to produce a film with live actors. Whilst we were producing the film devoted to the Mediterranean theatre of war – “War Thunder Heroes” – we worked with a British studio, veterans of video trailer production. Together with them, we have created one of the most successful trailers referencing the military. But the British have their own history and their own view on the Second World War and we, the descendants of our Soviet heroes had our own war and own memories of it.
In developing the script, we assumed that the main thing from our point of view, was to express the emotions and perception of battles from the Great Patriotic War that were foremost in the minds of the descendants of those who helped win the war, therefore, it was decided that we should have the following distinctive features in the film:
To authentically recreate battles on the Eastern Front, Ukrainian studio Postmodern were chosen for filming, they shared our common history of the Great Patriotic War and our vision of heroism and battle unity in those battles. The studio has done a great job on our proposed scenario and it was able to convey the spirit of the decisive battles for the defense of the Motherland.
“We devoted special attention to the heroes of our film.” – says director Dmitriy Ovcharenko. ”We tried to show them in the way in which they came to our minds from the words of our relatives and from Soviet films about the war. As a prototype of archetype of the protagonist we took Sergei Tsvetaeva – an artilleryman from the movie “Liberation”. This great role played by the famous Soviet actor Nikolai Olyalin. It was his focus, simultaneous detachment and fatalism, and unconditional willingness to die at any moment that did not leave us indifferent.
We all remember the Soviet pilots from the masterpiece of Soviet cinema “Only Old Men Are Going to Battle” with a handsome Leonid Bykov in the main role. We pictured our pilots exactly like this – young, provocative, for whom war was not only a duty, but also a gamble with life and death.