Culture‘Ford v Ferrari’ gets a tsarist makeover in lavish Russian racing drama ‘Battle of the Engines’
Ilya Malanin’s adventure film “Battle of the Engines” is now showing in Russian theaters. It follows Andrey Nagel and engineer Dmitry Bondarev as they take the Russo-Balt from St. Petersburg to the Monte Carlo Rally. The review praises its lavish scale and energetic racing scenes while noting that it cannot entirely escape patriotic undertones.
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‘Ford v Ferrari’ gets a tsarist makeover in lavish Russian racing drama ‘Battle of the Engines’
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