Colombia Pictures is bringing Fedor Bondarchuk’s Russian smash to the US and has struck a deal with IMAX for a one-week nationwide engagement starting on February 28.

The 3D WWII drama is Russia’s foreign-language Oscar submission and became the highest grossing Russian film ever on $66.1m in six weeks.

The producers also claim it is the first Russian film made completely in 3D and the first Russian film to be released in the IMAX format.

Ilya Tilkin and Sergey Snezhkin wrote the screenplay from the novel Life And Fate by Vasiliy Grossman. Thomas Kretschmann, Petr Fedorov, Sergey Bondarchuk, Mariya Smolnikova and Yanina Studilina star.

Alexander Rodnyansky, Sergey Melkumov, Dmitriy Rudovskiy and Anton Zlatopolskiy produced. The executive producers are Nataliya Gorina, Paul Heth and Michael Schlicht.

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