Quicksand Fans

I've been trying to track down a film (probably Russian) that contains a female soldier sinking into a bog, without much success.

However, while searching for that, I stumbled over this one: https://youtu.be/9jHuS3B9hXY?t=6294

The link is to an entire TV series on YouTube, scene starts around 1:44:55. Not sure what is going on, or whether there are other scenes hiding in the remaining 11 hours.

Interesting find! Thanks for posting. I will add it to the list.

I also believe the scene you are looking for is this one...

The Dawns Here Are Quiet (aka A Zori Zdes Tikhiye) @
1972 B&W/Color Russian - Yelena Drapeko, Yekaterina Markova, Olga Ostroumova
During World War II, a small unit of female soldiers in the Soviet army discover that a German subversive detachment has landed and, with their male sergeant, must fight for their lives to get the news to headquarters. Combat sequences of them in conflict with a German patrol, trying for a surprise attack on Russian positions, is interspersed with their memories of their husbands and civilian lives. There is a scene of the group traversing a boggy marsh. Later, one of the young women is sent back to get word of enemy movement and numbers to the command post. As she heads back through the swamp, carrying a pole and wearing only her undergarments, she steps into a deep quagmire and thrashes desperately to keep from drowning. Eventually, she sinks under and dies.

Great find! Shots made in real bogs are the best!

Thanks Crypto, though it is a different scene - I was going to write in my original post that it is not from "The Dawns Here are Quiet", because I knew someone would suggest that

It is actually another scene that someone shared on this forum, though the post was removed because the site hosting that video also illegally distributes a lot of copyrighted content, including from the producers here.

For obvious reasons, I will not share a link to the video, but here is a screen grab. If anyone recognizes it, I'd love to learn what it's from:



The only other clue is that the title of the movie (or series) might be Военный фильм, 2012

According to Google Translate, "Военный фильм" translates to "War film".

The show seems to be called Military Intelligence. Scene is season 2, episode 4.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUZaWFm-cEc

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index wrote:The show seems to be called Military Intelligence. Scene is season 2, episode 4.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUZaWFm-cEc

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Thanks!

index wrote:The show seems to be called Military Intelligence. Scene is season 2, episode 4.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUZaWFm-cEc

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Nice job. I like that she went under while trying to stay afloat in the bog but then they kind of messed it up. It's got "boogered up scene/edit" all over it. Nevertheless the Russians are really good at this woodland marsh kind of thing. Thanks for the details.

Duncan Edwards wrote:
Nice job. I like that she went under while trying to stay afloat in the bog but then they kind of messed it up. It's got "boogered up scene/edit" all over it. Nevertheless the Russians are really good at this woodland marsh kind of thing. Thanks for the details.

I wonder why she did not use her rifle just like a stick to give her some leverage.
The Russians are great with boggy scenes. It probably helps when half the country looks like this...

bogbud wrote:I wonder why she did not use her rifle just like a stick to give her some leverage.

For the same reason that someone who should know better continues to charge headlong into a bog.

For what it's worth - I've been in those situations where there's water on top and plenty of bottomless mush underneath and not wanting to drop the gear I was carrying. Wearing boots or much else would have made the difference between getting across and not.