White Tiger
White Tiger director Karen Shakhnazarov says that Leo Tolstoy in his novel War and Peace comments that war is a basic human trait. But Tolstoy actually utters something more like sad fatalism.
Goenawan Mohamad
March 7, 2022
THE driver of the Russian tank does not die, but he changes. He is found stuck to the steering wheel. His tank cannot move. Ninety percent of his body is burnt, but strangely his eyes are open, staring.
The Russian film White Tiger (Belyy Tigr) directed by Karen Shakhnazarov tells of a soldier, the sole survivor of fighting on the Eastern Front in the spring of 1943, when the Soviet forces were moving towards Berlin. A mysterious tank
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