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T-34

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T-34	label	T-34
T-34	page	T34
T-34	comment	T-34 is a 2018 Russian war movie directed by Aleksey Sidorov.In the months following the opening stages of the German invasion of the Soviet Union, a lone T-34-76 crew lead by junior tank commander Nikolay Ivushkin (Alexander Petrov) is assigned to a small detachment of Soviet infantry to slow the German onslaught at the outskirts of Moscow. Finding themselves outnumbered and outgunned, the Russians lay in ambush against a German Panzer battalion lead by a cunning SS officer, Klaus JÃ¤ger (Vinzenz Kiefer). In the aftermath of the vicious tank battle, Nikolay is wounded by an equally-battered Klaus and is eventually captured by the Germans.Fast forward to late 1944, a promoted Klaus is assigned by the German High Command to produce a tank-training program to help repel the Russian advance in the East. Seeing potential in using experienced Russian tankers to help teach the enemy's tactics to their newer Panzer cadets, he finds a mugshot of a familiar face and eventually discovers Nikolay in a POW camp. Nikolay reluctantly agrees to help the German officer and is forced to assemble a crew to repair and operate a newer model of their previous tank, a T-34-85 recently captured from the front. Seeing an opportunity to escape, Nikolay hatches a daring plan with his new crew, alongside the camp's resident translator inmate, Anya Yartseva, but pulling off the prison break of a lifetime under the watchful eyes of the Nazis isn't going to be as easy as it sounds.Compare with the American equivalent, Fury (2014).
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T-34 / int_149f7447	type	Rescue Romance
T-34 / int_149f7447	comment	Rescue Romance: How Nikolay and Anya hit it off. While there was reluctance on Nikolay's part to invite Anya in the escape attempt he devised with Volchok, Stepan, and Serafim, he decides to offer Anya a ride when she offered that she can smuggle a map Jaeger showed to them earlier. Once Nikolay and his subordinates succeed in escaping, Nikolay finds the time to pick up Anya after she left the camp. From there, the romance begins to the point Nikolay evidently impregnates and marries Anya after the war.
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T-34 / int_191a3673	type	Graceful Loser
T-34 / int_191a3673	comment	Graceful Loser: A defeated Klaus takes the helping hand of Nikolay.... only to shake it and give him a last nod of acceptance, before finally letting go and falling with his dead crew and tank.
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T-34 / int_1cc2ea8d	type	Villain Ball
T-34 / int_1cc2ea8d	comment	Villain Ball: The Germans hold on to it big time, when they somehow allowed prisoners-of-war free reign over the maintenance of a recently captured tank, especially when they neglected to at least search the vehicle thoroughly before handing it over to them. This allows the Soviet crew to discover six working tank shells and then smuggle them out by burying them with their now-deceased former crew, enabling them to hatch a daring escape plan afterwards. The last bit was apparently done out of the petty cruelty of making the prisoners remove the bodies of the former crew themselves, not knowing that one of said bodies was lying on a box of shells.
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T-34 / int_1dae374	type	POW Camp
T-34 / int_1dae374	comment	POW Camp: The second act of the movie sees the Russian characters being transferred to one within German territory.
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T-34 / int_20860a0e	type	Punch-Clock Villain
T-34 / int_20860a0e	comment	Punch-Clock Villain: Klaus JÃ¤ger views himself as a mere soldier who serves his country.
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T-34 / int_21e5b9c7	type	Failed a Spot Check
T-34 / int_21e5b9c7	comment	Failed a Spot Check: The Germans somehow managed to remove all visible ammunition from the captured T-34-85, but somehow missed six unused 85 mm shells and grenades from underneath the corpses of the dead crew. You'd think they would have made sure of this before handing a perfectly-serviceable tank over to the Russian crew.
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T-34 / int_243cbd0d	type	Dope Slap
T-34 / int_243cbd0d	comment	Dope Slap: Klaus gives one to his gunner's head when the latter fails to hit a critical shot in the town battle.
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T-34 / int_2562da69	type	Great Escape
T-34 / int_2562da69	comment	Great Escape: The Russian crew plan an audacious one involving a tank.
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T-34 / int_2633c91d	type	SteelEardrums
T-34 / int_2633c91d	comment	Steel Eardrums: Averted. Even shells ricocheting off the tank's armour temporarily deafens the crew and impacts their performance during battle. In the final battle, Serafim's ears are seen bleeding after they blew up an enemy tank at point blank range.
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T-34 / int_2a02e5c9	type	Guile Hero
T-34 / int_2a02e5c9	comment	Guile Hero: Nikolay has to rely on his witts and skills as a tank commander to escape from the concentration camp and defeat his German opponent and equal Klaus.
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T-34 / int_2a3006e5	type	State Sec
T-34 / int_2a3006e5	comment	The protagonists just returning home in the end. While making it out of Germany during the war was not unheard of, it would require way more than just traveling on foot without weapons and while carrying a wounded comrade. What's more, the NKVD were not at all welcoming to former POWs, who were officially assumed to be traitors unless they could prove otherwise. Rather than believe the protagonists survived and escaped from one of the Germans' infamous camps—let alone in such a wild and improbable manner—the NKVD would think it more likely that they only avoided being killed because they agreed to work for the Germans, and were now pretending to have "escaped" so they could infiltrate the USSR as German spies.
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T-34 / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
T-34 / int_3114c1e5	comment	Ramming Always Works: How a T-34-85 tank with broken tracks, but still barrelling forwards at full speed takes out a Panther, by ramming it to the edge of the bridge.
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T-34 / int_33987735	type	Disposing of a Body
T-34 / int_33987735	comment	Disposing of a Body: When the recently-captured T-35-85 is revealed, the entire audience is seen covering their noses due to the foul stench of the dead crew still inside. Even when Nikolay briefly inspects the interior, he is overwhelmed by the smell and tells the Germans that they need extra time to clean it out as well as burying the dead.
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T-34 / int_36135fb0	type	Official Couple
T-34 / int_36135fb0	comment	Official Couple: Nikolay and Anya become this in the end.
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T-34 / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
T-34 / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity: Klaus accepts his defeat in the last battle, all with a calm expression on his face as he falls alongside his Panther into the gorge.
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T-34 / int_3ec18c6f	type	Sherlock Scan
T-34 / int_3ec18c6f	comment	Sherlock Scan: The Russians realize they're driving into a trap when Nikolay notices an abandoned baby pram with an suitcase inside at the side of the road, concluding that the citizens of the town must have been evacuated for an upcoming ambush.
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T-34 / int_3f7a958b	type	Secret Test of Character
T-34 / int_3f7a958b	comment	Secret Test of Character: When ordered to pick a crew for the T-34-85 by his German captors, he inspects a whole parade of prisoners by walking right up to the person's face and stare him down for a bit. Anyone who cannot maintain eye contact for the whole ordeal is dismissed immediately; those that do stare at him in either genuine curiosity or display outright defiance are chosen, as he can sense their fighting spirit still burning strong in them.
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T-34 / int_41dd77d	type	Zerg Rush
T-34 / int_41dd77d	comment	Zerg Rush: No matter how skilled or lucky a lone tank can be, superior numbers as well as infantry support will always triumph. The Russian crews have to resort to hit-and-run tactics or outright retreat when the enemy begins to swarm them with overwhelming numbers.
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T-34 / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
T-34 / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: Both Nikolay and Klaus view one another as this by the end of the movie.
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T-34 / int_49f8c18f	type	Ace Custom
T-34 / int_49f8c18f	comment	Ace Custom: Averted with the Soviet crew who operate relatively normal T-34 tanks. Klaus' Panther has an experimental Sperber FG 1250 infra-red nightvision device installed on his commander's cupola that he uses to spot and engage the T-34-85 during the night battle in the town.
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T-34 / int_4ebb6a0	type	Insert Grenade Here
T-34 / int_4ebb6a0	comment	Insert Grenade Here: During the town battle, Volchok armed with only a single grenade manages to sneak up to an exposed tank commander and briefly struggle with him before managing to drop it into the open hatch.
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T-34 / int_4efc4fae	type	Good Scars, Evil Scars
T-34 / int_4efc4fae	comment	Good Scars, Evil Scars: Post-timeskip, Klaus still has several bright gashes on his face that he acquired three years earlier, courtesy of shrapnel from a 76 mm shell. The T-34 crew also have their fair share of battle scars along with fresh bruising from their time in captivity and constant mistreatment.
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T-34 / int_5036c7d4	type	Time-Passage Beard
T-34 / int_5036c7d4	comment	Time-Passage Beard: Inverted. Klaus sports a thick beard during the Invasion of Russia, but by 1944 he is clean shaven. He may have grown the Seadog Beard to combat the cold temperatures of the Moscow winter as well as taking advantage of lax grooming standards deep in the frontlines. In the second act of the story he is a high-ranking officer within administrative reach of the higher ups. (His scarring may have also halted facial hair growth as well). Played straight with Nikolay, who has an unkempt beard in his early captivity scenes (a notably unruly POW is unlikely to be granted regular access to shaving kit).
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T-34 / int_5327b609	type	Badass Driver
T-34 / int_5327b609	comment	Badass Driver: Stepan Vasilyonok, the grouchy but boisterous tank driver who had survived the battle at the Eastern Front and is eventually reunited with his commander, Nikolay. Despite spending years in captivity, his skill behind the tank levers and toolkits has not dulled one bit.
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T-34 / int_543a0278	type	Villain Respect
T-34 / int_543a0278	comment	Villain Respect: Klaus has a very high opinion of Nikolay and his tank-commanding skills after nearly getting killed in the Battle of Moscow. Even after the crew escape from captivity, he remains very cordial in his attempts to recapture or eliminate the Russians and treats it more like a challenge than a duty.
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T-34 / int_56515a39	type	Artistic License â€“ History
T-34 / int_56515a39	comment	Artistic License â€“ History: enough to fill its own page, despite the claims that the events shown are "carefully recreated based on real events": In the opening scene, there's a little bobblehead doll in the cab of the truck. These were not used in the USSR until much, much later. The S3 camp was very real, but it's portrayed as far less horrible than it was in real life. None of the inmates look malnourished, they have more-or-less proper beds, and are even allowed to have hair, beards and moustaches. But above all, Nikolay could never have gotten a record of attempting escape seven times: the Germans would have killed him when they caught him escaping the first time, and probably would have killed a number of Nikolay's fellow inmates as collective punishment. Jaeger (an SS officer) mentions his oath to Deutchland. Except that the SS did not swear loyalty to Germany, but directly to Adolf Hitler himself. Jaeger allows Nikolay to bury the tank crew outside the camp (unknowingly allowing the protagonists to store tank shells there). SS were, to put it mildly, not very respectful towards the dead, although in this particular case Klaus seemingly made an exception. Nikolay seems to already know everything about the T-34-85 when it's presented to him in the camp, even though he was captured in 1941 and had no access to information about this more recent model. If anything the SS ought to know more about it than him, since they and the Wehrmacht have been fighting against and studying the successive iterations of the T-34 in the meantime. Jaeger allows Nikolay to get a full 4-member crew for the tank, but says they won't have shells. However, of the four crew members, two are specifically required to man the cannon (aim and reload), which would make the full 4-man crew unnecessary. If the Germans weren't carrying the Idiot Ball, Nikolay's escape would never have succeeded. Volchok openly displays how religious he is, which was not only very discouraged in arch-atheistic Soviet Union, but it was a German tradition of carrying a Gott mit uns motto. Soviet authorities did soften up about the persecution of religion since 1941 — any morale boost was welcome in the face of the German invasion, but not really in the military. The same character also swears using the 'kher' word, which was not only not invented yet in Russian, but would also be too similar to German word 'herr', making it doubly uncharacteristic. The protagonists just returning home in the end. While making it out of Germany during the war was not unheard of, it would require way more than just traveling on foot without weapons and while carrying a wounded comrade. What's more, the NKVD were not at all welcoming to former POWs, who were officially assumed to be traitors unless they could prove otherwise. Rather than believe the protagonists survived and escaped from one of the Germans' infamous camps—let alone in such a wild and improbable manner—the NKVD would think it more likely that they only avoided being killed because they agreed to work for the Germans, and were now pretending to have "escaped" so they could infiltrate the USSR as German spies. Nikolay says that it's 300 kilometers to Czechian border (which it was from the SIII camp); but during the time period shown (before SIII camp was liberated), that particular territory was controlled by Germany. In fact, it was one of the last territories still held by the Germans when they capitulated, since Berlin was a higher-priority target for the Allies. They would have had to continue driving on to eastern Poland to reach the frontline and be in the clear. Possibly justified by Nikolay not being aware of this. The tank has a signature on its turret: Perm. However, that city was named Molotov during the time period shown.
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T-34 / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
T-34 / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: A local policeman quickly surrenders his service bolt-action rifle to the tankers when they roll into the German town. Very justified; there's really not much you can do with a puny rifle when you're staring down the barrel of a 85 mm cannon.
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T-34 / int_5a0e88d8	type	Bring It
T-34 / int_5a0e88d8	comment	Bring It: Klaus' response to Nikolay accepting his challenge is to lightly taunt him with an outstretched hands gesture.
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T-34 / int_5bdcc85a	type	Disney Villain Death
T-34 / int_5bdcc85a	comment	Disney Villain Death: Klaus goes off the edge of a bridge, his Panther tank flipping over his plummeting body, presumably crushing him to his death when they hit the river.
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T-34 / int_5f70322e	type	Public Domain Soundtrack
T-34 / int_5f70322e	comment	Public Domain Soundtrack: During the start of the German wargames against the T-34-85, the Battle of the Bulge movie's rendition of Panzerlied can be heard blaring in the background. Erika can also be heard playing in the background of the German town when the T-34-85 stops by.
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T-34 / int_5fcb9ad1	type	Time Skip
T-34 / int_5fcb9ad1	comment	Time Skip: The opening battle takes place during the Battle of Moscow, late-1941. After that the film skips three years to mid-1944 long after the Russian crew were captured and transferred to a POW camp in Germany.
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T-34 / int_607d4ada	type	Run for the Border
T-34 / int_607d4ada	comment	Run for the Border: The endgame of the prison escape was to go past the Czechoslovakian border in the hopes of rejoining friendly lines. How they would have known that the Soviets had reclaimed that territory by 1944 while in captivity is uncertain; it is possible they were going only by rumours amongst recently-captured prisoners or the knowledge that the recently acquired T-34-85 is at least 3 days away from the frontlines.
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T-34 / int_61356a74	type	Almost Dead Guy
T-34 / int_61356a74	comment	Almost Dead Guy After saving his friends by firing his captured Panther's gun, Volchok is physically unable to reload his tank due to his wounds, Heroic Willpower be damned.
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T-34 / int_6480c255	type	Robbing the Dead
T-34 / int_6480c255	comment	Robbing the Dead: Invoked. The Soviet crew smuggle live 85 mm shells in the bodybags of the former T-34-85 crew and buries them along with their corpses at the staging area under the noses of the Germans. When they later dig up the graves to retrieve the goods, they solemnly apologise to the corpses and swear to take vengeance in their stead.
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T-34 / int_6c07693b	type	Carry a Big Stick
T-34 / int_6c07693b	comment	Carry a Big Stick: Very few German civilians would even think to lift a finger against a couple of escaped Russian prisoners who happen to be driving a fully-functioning T-34-85 tank. Even the local police constable (ordnungspolizei) knows better than to challenge them with a puny rifle and gives up immediately. This aids the crew in refuelling and restocking their tank much quicker during their time behind enemy lines.
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T-34 / int_6c7136b7	type	Tactful Translation
T-34 / int_6c7136b7	comment	Tactful Translation: While giving a friendly toast to one another, Nikolay curses to Klaus in Russian, "May your liver crack in half". Anya, the interpreter politely translates it to Klaus as, "A long and happy life to you".
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T-34 / int_6d9bc945	type	Babies Ever After
T-34 / int_6d9bc945	comment	Babies Ever After: In the epilogue, Nikolay returns home to his mother along with Anya, who is visibly pregnant.
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T-34 / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
T-34 / int_7286e96d	comment	Jaeger allows Nikolay to get a full 4-member crew for the tank, but says they won't have shells. However, of the four crew members, two are specifically required to man the cannon (aim and reload), which would make the full 4-man crew unnecessary. If the Germans weren't carrying the Idiot Ball, Nikolay's escape would never have succeeded.
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T-34 / int_7360a6b6	type	Noble Demon
T-34 / int_7360a6b6	comment	Noble Demon: StandartenfÃ¼hrer Klaus JÃ¤ger may be a Nazi officer, but he is very courteous to his enemies and has a sense of honor and fair play.
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T-34 / int_73733868	type	Awesomeness by Analysis
T-34 / int_73733868	comment	Awesomeness by Analysis: Despite being a self-professed newbie officer, one look at his new crew's tank and Nikolay manages to point out their flaws but also acknowledge all of their good maintenance habits. And that's not even going into his skills as an armoured officer. Anna, in turn, puts the pieces together and deduces Nikolay's plan for escape before Germans suspect a thing, pointing out its flaws and fixing it for them before she even tells the tank crew about it.
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T-34 / int_7f38c0cd	type	An Offer You Can't Refuse
T-34 / int_7f38c0cd	comment	An Offer You Can't Refuse: Klaus visits an imprisoned Nikolay with the proposition to have the latter train German tank crews. The latter initially refuses, so the former pulls out his pistol and takes aim.... at the innocent inmate translator Anya and starts counting down to five. Nikolay eventually relents.
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T-34 / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
T-34 / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Nikolay Ivushkin shows excellent judgement and observation skills when he manages to outrun a Panzer III's cannon by driving towards it, taking their turret traversal speed into account as well as later dodging its fire by estimating the timing between its loading and aiming, all while driving a regular Soviet Army truck.
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T-34 / int_82108e3d	type	Attack Its Weak Point
T-34 / int_82108e3d	comment	Attack Its Weak Point: A necessity for tankers on both sides. The Germans in the opening battle note that their early-war tank guns are unable to penetrate the T-34-76, at least from the front which forces them to try and flank it. Later in the movie when the Russians acquire the improved T-34-85, they too are acutely aware that their upgraded cannon is still unable to go head-on against the German Panthers, so they get very creative with what little shells they have.
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T-34 / int_88e5fcbc	type	One-Hit Polykill
T-34 / int_88e5fcbc	comment	One-Hit Polykill: In the opening battle, Nikolay manages to kill a Panzer II and the Panzer III behind it with his opening shot, combined with gratuitous slow-mo.
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T-34 / int_8af25294	type	Bullet Time
T-34 / int_8af25294	comment	Bullet Time: A good amount of slow-mo sequences happen throughout the movie, with very gratuitous shots of tank shells flying through the air and often ricocheting off tank armour.
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T-34 / int_8f5247eb	type	Arrow Cam
T-34 / int_8f5247eb	comment	Arrow Cam: Quite a few scenes are of the camera tracking cannon projectiles in slow-mo. There is a notable reverse Arrow Cam shot in one instance: the camera tracks the flight path from a tank that had just got hit, through the interior of the other tank that got hit before returning to its source.
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T-34 / int_93168fb1	type	It's Quietâ€¦ Too Quiet
T-34 / int_93168fb1	comment	It's Quietâ€¦ Too Quiet: Right before the Germans enter the village of Nefedovo, Klaus orders the armor column to halt and takes off his headset to hear.... nothing. Not even dogs barking, which clues him in that something wasn't right.
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T-34 / int_967edd3a	type	Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene
T-34 / int_967edd3a	comment	Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene: The most poignant one being long after their explosive prison break and far from immediate danger, the crew take a break in the forest at night while Stepan sings a Russian ode around their campfire.
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T-34 / int_97fa0a10	type	Mass "Oh, Crap!"
T-34 / int_97fa0a10	comment	When the German observers realized that their 'target practice' Soviet tankers are now somehow in possession of live shells during the training exercise. They then have a Mass "Oh, Crap!" reaction when Klaus spots the-now-rogue T-34-85 tank emerging from the forest right in front of their observation post, cannon pointed directly at them.
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T-34 / int_9a6990	type	Skinny Dipping
T-34 / int_9a6990	comment	Skinny Dipping: After breaking out, the place where the crew stops for the night is near a lake, so the men all strip down for a wash.
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T-34 / int_9aeb1d20	type	This Is Not a Drill
T-34 / int_9aeb1d20	comment	This Is Not a Drill: The wargames at the German tank base grinds to a halt when the Russian tankers reveal that they have real, deadly shells. An officer is seen announcing this trope over the camp's speakers.
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T-34 / int_9f1b0b39	type	Counting Bullets
T-34 / int_9f1b0b39	comment	Counting Bullets: Nikolay and his men were only able to scrounge up six shells (four armor-piercing and two fragmentation) for their tank, so they have to keep careful count of how many they have left as the fighting progresses. In the final duel, they have only One Bullet Left, so they need to make it count.
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T-34 / int_a05abbc8	type	Throwing Down the Gauntlet
T-34 / int_a05abbc8	comment	Throwing Down the Gauntlet: After losing all his other tanks in the climax of the town battle, Klaus challenges the Russian crew to a fair fight by actually throwing one of his tanker gloves down. Nikolay graciously accepts.
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T-34 / int_a2cb509b	type	Tested on Humans
T-34 / int_a2cb509b	comment	Tested on Humans: There is a scene in the concentration camp where inmates are forced to put on sample boots of varying quality and run on a rocky track in circles till they drop from sheer exhaustion, just to test the durability and comfort of shoes. Truth in Television, unfortunately.
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T-34 / int_a679184b	type	Due to the Dead
T-34 / int_a679184b	comment	Due to the Dead: The Soviet tankers are respectfully allowed by their German captors to bury the deceased tankers they found in the captured T-34-85. They take full advantage of this by smuggling six live shells in the body bags and bury them near the staging point for future use.
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T-34 / int_a6b14ee1	type	Hollywood Tactics
T-34 / int_a6b14ee1	comment	Hollywood Tactics: Averted in the opening battle: Nikolay does exactly what a lone T-34 against a Platoon of Panzer III tanks should do: start from ambush, and then reverse into new ambush positions, keeping his heavy glacis pointed at the enemy. He is giving up speed to do so, which allows the Germans an opportunity for flanking movement, which they take. All together a very realistic tank vs. tank battle (and as an added bonus: showing the weakness of the early T-34: because the commander is the gunner, Nikolay loses situational awareness concentrating on his set-up shot, and doesn't notice JÃ¤ger taking a shortcut to end up on the wrong side of his turret). JÃ¤ger makes a tactical mistake mid-battle: after dealing a critical hit on the T-34-76, they stop firing and assume the tank is immobilized and their crew incapacitated. He is genuinely surprised when the (barely surviving) Russian tank starts up again and continues the fight for another five minutes. Standard tank doctrine employed by all sides during the war was when defeating an enemy tank, shoot at it repeatedly until it visibly catches fire or explodes in order to prevent such a scenario from happening. When hunting for the T-34-85, numerous scenes show at least an entire company of SS soldiers supported with tanks, armoured cars and roadblocks were all deployed; a realistically reasonable response to a rogue tank within friendly lines. Even air recon was present to help pinpoint the Russians position. However, during the German ambush in the town, only the tanks are present, negating their force-multiplier advantage as well as a tank's crippling weakness in urban combat: anti-tank infantry which are nowhere to be found.
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T-34 / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: When the German observers realized that their 'target practice' Soviet tankers are now somehow in possession of live shells during the training exercise. They then have a Mass "Oh, Crap!" reaction when Klaus spots the-now-rogue T-34-85 tank emerging from the forest right in front of their observation post, cannon pointed directly at them. The German citizenry's reactions to an enemy T-34 tank rolling down their streets with impunity. Nikolay when he spot the glint of an 88 mm anti-aircraft cannon down the road they were travelling on.
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T-34 / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
T-34 / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: An unimpressed Guderian gets very snarky when they're told that the rogue T-34 has somehow magically disappeared. He sarcastically suggests to Klaus in consulting a psychic as well as the entire services of the Ahnenerbe note A real-life Nazi research division specialising in pseudoscience and possible usage of supernatural phenomena to help Germany's war effort. No one, not even Hitler took them seriously. to help locate their missing enemy.
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T-34 / int_b414868	type	Take It to the Bridge
T-34 / int_b414868	comment	Take It to the Bridge: The final duel between Klaus and Nikolay.
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T-34 / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
T-34 / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: The conscript who was rooted to the spot after seeing several Panzers aiming their turrets at his position. His commander barely manages to pull him away from their dummy cannon as the tanks open up with high explosives.
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T-34 / int_b77808f2	type	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue
T-34 / int_b77808f2	comment	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: The end of the film shows the eventual fates of the tankers. Stepan becomes a tractor driver on a farm and raises a family. Serafim becomes an art restorer. Volchok becomes a hunter. Nikolay returns home and is reunited with his mother, who he introduces to his now pregnant wife/fiancee, Anya.
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T-34 / int_ba5bbda5	type	Mirror Character
T-34 / int_ba5bbda5	comment	Mirror Character: Both Klaus and Nikolay are The Ace of their respective factions, who are A Father to His Men and are loyal to their country. Klaus even tries to highlight this by bringing up the fact that their names are practically the same (Klaus, presumably short-form of 'Nicolaus' = 'Nikolay').
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T-34 / int_bcac7f63	type	Distant Prologue
T-34 / int_bcac7f63	comment	Distant Prologue: The opening scenes, climaxing in the tank battle between Nikolay and Klaus, are set in late November 1941. Cut forward some 2.5 years to 1944 and the main story, Nikolay and Stepan having been prisoners the whole time.
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T-34 / int_c411f49	type	Turn Off the Camera
T-34 / int_c411f49	comment	Turn Off the Camera: After the Russians escape the camp, Jaeger belatedly remembers the men filming the training exercise and pulls this trope.
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T-34 / int_c87660d5	type	Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!
T-34 / int_c87660d5	comment	Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: In the first battle, Klaus' Panzer III gets penetrated by the T-34's shell and wounds everyone in it. Klaus has to yell at a hysterical Wolff to get him back on the gun despite his injuries.
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T-34 / int_cd809603	type	Tank Goodness
T-34 / int_cd809603	comment	Tank Goodness: The titular T-34 tanks that the Soviet protagonists pilot being pitted against their evil (but no less awesome) German counterparts, the Panzer IIs,IIIs and later the Panthers. Many of the tanks are either very good mockups or genuine wartime-produced tanks such as the Russian T-34s, a testament to their legendary durability far exceeding their intended service life.
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T-34 / int_cfe72499	type	Shoot the Bullet
T-34 / int_cfe72499	comment	Shoot the Bullet: At one point, a shell from the T-34 collides with one from a Panther by sheer chance, causing both shots to be deflected into misses.
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T-34 / int_d043100b	type	Nose Art
T-34 / int_d043100b	comment	The Russians adopt Nose Art-styled ones in contrast to the Germans; the earlier T-34-76 has a slogan, "Ð‘Ð•Ð¡ÐŸÐžÐ©Ð�Ð”Ð�Ð«Ð™" (MERCILESS/UNMERCIFUL). The T-34-85 has "ÐœÐžÐ¡ÐšÐ’Ð�" (MOSCOW) along with the Red Star adorned by a trailing angel wing.
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T-34 / int_dffd6a64	type	Glad-to-Be-Alive Sex
T-34 / int_dffd6a64	comment	Glad-to-Be-Alive Sex: Nikolay and Anya consummate their relationship by having a tryst under the stars right before the final battle.
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T-34 / int_e482cfa7	type	To the Pain
T-34 / int_e482cfa7	comment	To the Pain: In the final battle, Klaus toys with Nikolay, going for a series of crippling shots which he lands despite the T-34-85 swerving back and forth. If he had fought seriously, he might have stopped Nikolay before he got close enough to shoot his last round point blank.
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T-34 / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
T-34 / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: A bloodied, but still alive Volchok mans an uncrewed Panther's gun and manages to shoot the second-last tank that had a kill-shot lined up on their T-34-85.
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T-34 / int_ed84457a	type	Consummate Professional
T-34 / int_ed84457a	comment	Consummate Professional: During a meeting between Heinz Guderian, Heinrich Himmler and Klaus JÃ¤ger, Himmler asks the latter if he hates the Russians. His reply suggests a very neutral stance on the matter.
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T-34 / int_f15c2859	type	NO INDOOR VOICE
T-34 / int_f15c2859	comment	No Indoor Voice: Justified. The interior of a running tank is loud and so the crew are always hollering over one another whenever they're in action.
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T-34 / int_faf5732b	type	I Call It "Vera"
T-34 / int_faf5732b	comment	I Call It "Vera": Close looks at some of the tanks reveal their nicknames as painted on by the crews. Klaus' Panzer III has Dietrich next to the driver's viewing port. One of the Panthers has ROSAMUNDE painted on the length of the barrel. It is the same tank that Volchok later attacks and commandeers during the town battle. The Russians adopt Nose Art-styled ones in contrast to the Germans; the earlier T-34-76 has a slogan, "Ð‘Ð•Ð¡ÐŸÐžÐ©Ð�Ð”Ð�Ð«Ð™" (MERCILESS/UNMERCIFUL). The T-34-85 has "ÐœÐžÐ¡ÐšÐ’Ð�" (MOSCOW) along with the Red Star adorned by a trailing angel wing.
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