Hollywood can’t beat foreign war films

In early 2020, the biographical ›lm Kalashnikov was released in Russia, chronicling the supposedly self-taught gun designer’s efforts to develop the AK-47 assault ri›e. The historical drama was just one of the latest in a wave of recent war ›lms made with the full support of the Russian government, and there was even a special screening held in the city of Izhevsk, where Mikhail Kalashnikov worked on the weapon in the 1940s.

That fact that a ›lm was made about Mikhail Kalashnikov is notable in that few movies have ever been