

WWII, 1945. After barely surviving a battle with a mysterious, ghostly-white German Tiger tank, Red Army Sergeant Ivan Naydenov becomes obsessed with its destruction.
Direction
Shakhnazarov's surreal, dreamlike battle sequences
Sound
The Tiger's mechanical growl becomes genuinely terrifying
Writing
Refuses easy answers about what the Tiger actually is

Director
Karen Shakhnazarov
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shakhnazarov filmed at actual Soviet tank museums with working T-34s and Panthers—no CGI armor here.
The 'White Tiger' legend echoes real German propaganda about unstoppable wonder weapons, but flips it into Soviet existential dread.