Aug 13, 2014
120 min
Full-HD

The Man Who Saved the World (2014)

A documentary film about Stanislav Petrov, a former lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces.

Category

Documentary History War

Country

Denmark Latvia Sweden United States of America

Companies

Ego Media Statement Pictures Light Cone Pictures WG Film Beofilm

Stanislav Petrov

Self

Kevin Costner

Self

Sergey Shnyryov

Stanislav Petrov

Nataliya Vdovina

Raia

Walter Cronkite

Self

Oleg Kassin

Major Orlov

Galina Kalinina

Self

Robert De Niro

Self

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