Брестская крепость
The events surrounding the defense of Brest Fortress were dramatized in the 1957 film "Immortal Garrison" and again in the 2010 film "Fortress of War". The Soviet writer Boris Vasilyev wrote a novel named "His Name Is Not in the List" ("В списках не значился") about a soldier named Nikolai Pluzhnikov who defended the Brest Fortress in 1941. At the end of the novel, when Pluzhnikov was captured by the German troops and was interrogated, he simply replied "I am a Russian soldier," and died due to exhaustion from months of fighting. Vasilyev's novel was dramatized in the 1995 film "I, a Russian soldier" ("Я — русский солдат"), directed by Andrey Malyukov.