Utomlyonnye solntsem 3: Citadel) is a 2011 Russian drama film directed, written, produced and starring by Nikita Mikhalkov, released on May 5, 2011.

In 1943, during the height of the Great Patriotic War, NKGB Colonel Dmitry "Mitya" Arsentiev (Oleg Menshikov) finds ex-Komdiv (General) Kotov (Nikita Mikhalkov) among the ranks of a penal battalion, standing at the walls of an impregnable fortress ("the Citadel"), which resembles a huge medieval castle with numerous convenient firing positions.

Drunken General Melezhko (Roman Madyanov) orders the penal soldiers to attack the Citadel, despite knowing that it means certain death for them.

During the evacuation of the hospital, a truck carrying the wounded soldiers and a pregnant woman Nyura (Anna Mikhalkova), driven by Nadya, came under fire from German planes.

Maroussia (Viktoriya Tolstoganova) and Kirik (Vladimir Ilyin) are raising a child together, and all the photos related to Kotov and Nadya, who is believed to be dead after the 1941 barge accident in the Baltic Sea, have been put away.

After discovering the child, named Sergei after him, Kotov is shocked by the situation and reprimands the family for living comfortably while he was in Gulag and fighting in the penal battalion.

A German machine gunner (Charly Hübner) aims at the garmon player among civilians, but, due to his careless, he is shot by a Soviet sniper.

Nadya, who serves in a nearby located medical unit, notices her father through binoculars and runs to him, but she steps on a mine in a minefield.

[2][3] This move was followed with protests and disagreement from many filmmakers, including another Academy Awards recipient Vladimir Menshov and Mikhalkov's brother, director Andrey Konchalovsky.