"Star" is a military drama about Soviet scouts.

Zvezda is a 2002 feature film directed by Nikolay Lebedev. Filmed on the novel of the same name by Emmanuel Kazakevich.
Nikolay I. Lebedev (b. November 16, 1966, Chisinau, USSR) - Russian film Director and screenwriter. Laureate of the state prize of the Russian Federation.

The film is set in the early summer of 1944. Red army goes to the Western border of the country. "Star" is a Callsign of a group of Soviet scouts who perform tasks of command in the rear of the enemy.

The chief of the intelligence section of the army tasked the division commander to send behind enemy lines a group of scouts, because according to available data, there is a regrouping, and should find out the availability of reserves and tanks.

A group of Lieutenant Travkin (radio call "Star") at night crosses the enemy trenches past the positions of tanks "Tiger", but it accidentally discovered by German soldiers. The next morning begins a RAID, from which the scouts manage to hide in the swamp. German Feldwebel fires a swamp with a submachine gun MP-40, but to no avail.

The next morning scouts go to the lake, on the opposite Bank of which the German hospital is found. Scouts take prisoner returning from the hospital of the German corporal (Carl Gille according To the book E. Kazakevich) from the sapper unit 131 infantry division of the Wehrmacht. From the testimony of a prisoner follows that in this area are concentrated the strength of 5 SS Panzer division "Viking". After interrogation of the prisoner liquidate.

Later, spy mom's being captured SS hauptscharfuhrer of Willibald Ernst, Bennet, who called the film "a staff officer of the regiment "Westland"". At the German the card with the data on the location of its part put on it, and also a certain station on which, most likely, there is an unloading of equipment is found out. Travkin decides to send to the station ordinary Bykov and Vorobyov, who unnoticed climb into the body of a German truck with the emblem of a motorized baking company division SS "Viking". At the time of arrival of trucks at the station travel-SS find the scouts, but here begins the airstrike, and the scouts had managed to escape by shooting while running by a German soldier. The scouts discover that the station is equipped with wooden models of tanks. When you try to leave the station there is a fight between ordinary Bykov and SS-sturmbannfuhrer Dill (this name is later voiced voice-over, it is also mentioned in the book Kazakevich). Dillie wounds Bykov with a knife, but he himself is killed by sparrows. Vorobyov takes the documents from the dead sturmbannfuhrer and he manages to drag the mortally wounded Bykov to his own, but the Bulls from his wounds die.

Based on the new data, Travkin sends Mummy and Anikanov at night to another station, which is located in the quarry area. At this station, scouts detect a large number of tanks in the process of unloading from the train. Scouts capture a German officer (according to the book it was SS-obersturmführer Arthur Wendel from the quartermaster's division of the Viking division). Wendel refuses to testify, but the documents seized from him give enough information about the forces and intentions of the enemy. However with transfer to The center of the extracted information there is a problem as the German patrol passing on the forest road on the half-track motorcycle "Kettenkrad" Sd.Kfz.2, fired suspicious bushes and bullets wounded one of the scouts and damaged the radio station. In order to contact his, Travkin decides to RAID the German point of contact. At the same time, the German signalman mortally injures private Vorobyov, but the scouts manage to capture the radio station. On the shot comes a group of SS, tied a shootout in which a random bullet kills a prisoner of SS Wendel. Trying to detain persecutors and divert them from the main group, Brazhnikov dies.

Pursued by the Germans, the scouts hiding in the attic of an abandoned barn using captured radio stations transmit their obtained information. They are found, tied unequal battle. The Germans deliver a flamethrower and burn the barn, and with it the remains of the reconnaissance group. Last shot: SS gunner standing in front of a blazing barn, removes his helmet.

After the destruction of the "Star" girl-radio operator in the headquarters tries to call the group and repeats several times: "I answer Earth Earth, welcome." After this scene, the voice-over (on behalf of captain Andrey Barashkin) tells:
"Group Travkina and Marchenko were long considered missing, and at the request of the relatives came the answer, "nothing is known About them". Only in 1964, all the scouts were awarded the order of the Patriotic war 1 degree posthumously. But every spring, every may the souls of those killed from the fields of Poland, the Czech Republic, Germany-everywhere rush to their native lands to see their blossoming homeland for which they gave their lives…»
"Star" is a military drama about Soviet scouts. In my opinion, this is one of the best contemporary films about the great Patriotic War. Thanks to the talented play of actors, interesting camera solutions and stunning music, the picture causes a lot of feelings and emotions, acquires a special sincerity. I watched this film more than once and each time it again excites with the same force.