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the haunted tank SPOILERS


I never thought the Russians could contemplate supernatural or ghost-theme films, especially in a wartime setting. But here's the proof, THE WHITE TIGER.

The concept of mechanical or haunted technology is not new to Western film history. What comes to mind immediately is the cult classic, THE CAR (1977). The overt theme is that of a demonic-possessed, human-contrived mechanical contraption employed to inflict mayhem, pain, and violent death. But THE CAR dealt with a human invention, an automobile, designed for peaceful purposes of human transport, yet twisted into an instrument of death piloted by an unseen insane diabolic intelligence. THE WHITE TIGER involved a machine of war, the German Tiger I tank whose crew is never seen, lending even more to its ghostly legend and fear of the devil, even among the aethistic communist Russians.

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Curiously there is no resolution at the movie's end. The devilish German Tiger I tank disappears from the battlefield and the pursuing, venegeful Russian tank commander is left empty-handed.

It's possible the entire story was an allegory about human suffering the evils that accompany it.

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Naydenov said, at the end, that he believes that the Nazi tank was not destroyed, that it will reappear sometimes in the future, be it after 20 or 100 years. This, of course, may also be a metaphor, linked nicely with what Hitler said to the mysterious listener, that war is eternal.

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