In Vietnam, with the help of cinematographers from the FAFIM Vietnam studio, several scenes were shot for the film, recreating the atmosphere of the Japanese capital in the early 1940s and episodes of the work of the Soviet intelligence officer Richard Sorge in Tokyo.
There are no fictional characters in the epic film. Only real people with specific biographies.
In the script for the film, were used the memoirs of G. K. Zhukov "Memoirs and Reflections".
Battle scenes were filmed on the outskirts of Novosibirsk.
All German armored vehicles, for lack of surviving originals, were assembled on the basis of Soviet post-war vehicles.