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Movie review: Saving Bella
Saving Bella is a film from 2026. It is catalogued under War, History, Drama.
Story
December 1941. Leningrad. A soldier is assigned to guard the city zoo in the midst of World War II. There, among starving workers and dying animals, he forms an unexpected bond with Bella the hippo. As the siege tightens, this fragile connection becomes his only anchor, forcing him to choose between survival and compassion in a world falling apart.
Audience reaction
TMDB records an audience rating of 4.8/10 based on 5 votes.
Production
Release date: February 19, 2026 · Runtime: 103 minutes · Original language: Russian
Cast
Slava Kopeykin
Yulia Peresild
Stasya Miloslavskaya
Viktor Sukhorukov
Ivan Dobronravov
Svetlana Nemolyaeva
Boris Shcherbakov
Vladimir Afanasyev
Polina Ainutdinova
Elisey Chuchilin
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