a Sony Pictures Classics release, Three T Productions ; presents Nikita Mikhalkov's film ; producers, Nikita Mikhalkov, Leonid Vereschagin ; screenplay by Nikita Mikhalkov, Alexander Novototsky-Vlasov, Vladimir Moiseenko ; director, Nikita Mikhalkov
produced and directed by Jens Afflerbach and Carsten Oblaender ; a production of Story House Productions for Thirteen/WNET, New York in association with National Geographic Channels International and ZDF