Dvadtsat vosem panfilovtsev is a 2016 Russian-language Action Drama motion picture directed by Kim Druzhinin and Andrey Shalopa and produced by Anton Yudintsev and Andrey Shalopa under the banner of Panfilov's Twenty Eight in collaboration with Gaijin Entertainment. USSR, Late November, 1941. Based on the account by reporter Vasiliy Koroteev that appeared in the Red Army's newspaper, Krasnaya Zvezda, shortly after the battle, this is the story of Panifilov's Twenty-Eight, a group of twenty-eight soldiers of the Red Army's 316th Rifle Division, under the command of General Ivan Panfilov, that stopped the advance on Moscow of a column of fifty-four Nazi tanks of the 11th Panzer Division for several days. Though armed only with standard issue Mosin-Nagant infantry rifles and DP and PM-M1910 machine guns, all useless against tanks, and with wholly inadequate RPG-40 anti-tank grenades and PTRD-41 anti-tank rifles, they fought tirelessly and defiantly, with uncommon bravery and unwavering dedication, to protect Moscow and their Motherland. Dvadtsat vosem panfilovtsev stars Aleksandr Ustyugov in the lead role along with an ensemble cast including Yakov Kucherevskiy, Azamat Nigmanov, Oleg Fyodorov, Aleksey Morozov, Maksim Abrosimov and Sergey Agafonov. The screenplay is written by Andrey Shalopa. The music was composed by Mikhail Kostylev. Cinematography was done by Nikita Rozhdestvenskiy. The motion picture has a running time of 105 minutes. It was released on 24th November 2016 in Russian and German languages. The Film was successful at box office. Dvadtsat vosem panfilovtsev was made on a budget of $1 million and it was a super hit at box office gross of $385 million.