WarHistoryDrama
Saving Bella
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.
Directed by Anton Bogdanov
48
User score
5 votes
Status
Released
Released
February 19, 2026
Runtime
1h 43m
Language
Russian
Top cast
Slava Kopeykin
Yulia Peresild
Stasya Miloslavskaya
Viktor Sukhorukov
Ivan Dobronravov
Svetlana Nemolyaeva
Boris Shcherbakov
Vladimir Afanasyev
Polina Ainutdinova
Elisey Chuchilin
Mariya Aronova
Victor Dobronravov
Daniil Burov
Sergey Barkovsky
Viktor Chuprov
Kirill Frolov
Anton Makukha
Evgeniy Kuzmin
Kseniya Olkhovskaya
Alyona Butylkina
