T-34 is a 2019 Russian war film written and directed by Aleksey Sidorov. The title references the T-34, a World War II-era Soviet medium tank used on the Eastern Front during World War II. The film narrates the life of Nikolai Ivushkin, a tank commander who gets captured by the Germans. Three years later, he begins to plan his ultimate escape, alongside his newly recruited tank crew. It stars Alexander Petrov as Junior Lieutenant Ivushkin, with Viktor Dobronravov, Irina Starshenbaum, Anton Bogdanov, Yuri Borisov, Semyon Treskunov, and Artyom Bystrov.

Plot

In November 1941 on the Eastern Front of World War II, Red Army Junior Lieutenant Nikolai Ivushkin is assigned to command a damaged T-34-76 tank whose commander was killed. His orders are to delay the Germans' advance the defense of the Soviet Union with only one tank and supporting infantry. Nikolai and his crew lay an ambush for a platoon of German panzers commanded by Heer Hauptmann (Captain) Klaus Jäger. They destroy six panzers, but in a final duel with Jäger's command vehicle, both tanks are disabled, Nikolai and driver Stepan Vasilyonok are captured and the rest of the crew is killed.