Shtrafbat - References in Culture

References in Culture

• The story, "The Warlord" by Soviet writer Vladimir Karpov recounts Karpov's military career from a penal company serviceman to a Guards Colonel awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.
• In the 2001 film Enemy at the Gates, barrier troops from penal battalions assigned to unreliable conscript units in the Red Army at Stalingrad seen in the beginning of the film firing at deserters who jumps out of the boats crossing the Volga when Junkers Ju 87s attack, and in the charge against the Wehrmacht when the Red Army troops retreat without order as the Political commissars exclaim "No mercy for cowards!".
• Nikolai Dostal's critically acclaimed 11-part television serial, Penal Battalion ("Shtrafbat" ("Штрафбат", Shtrafbat at the Internet Movie Database), was released in 2004.