5 reasons to watch ‘V-2. Escape from Hell’, Russia’s new WWII blockbuster Timur Bekmambetov, Sergey Trofimov/Bazelevs, Columbia Pictures, 2021 Till Lindemann, lead vocalist of the band Rammstein sang a song in Russian specially for this movie. And it was his idea!
1. Based on unbelievable real events Timur Bekmambetov, Sergey Trofimov/Bazelevs, Columbia Pictures, 2021
V-2. Escape from Hell is based on the true story of senior Lieutenant of a guards fighter aviation regiment Mikhail Devyatayev, who, in 1944, was taken as a POW. Sent to a concentration camp on the Island of Usedom (in the Baltic Sea), he was selected for the hard labor at the nearby secret German Peenemünde test site, where new jets and V-1 and V-2 missiles were being developed. Being so close to German aircraft, Devyataev wasn’t going to miss his chance to flee…