

First Oscar
1 hour 40 minutes2022-04-21
7.8
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The film follows two student cinematographers who, as the war approaches Moscow, refuse to be evacuated and instead volunteer to be front-line cameramen capturing the horrors of war and heroism of the soviet soldiers. At the same time, we witness another storyline taking place in the US. After the premiere screening of the already completed documentary “Moscow Strikes Back”, one of the members of the Academy Awards selection committee is trying to persuade his fellow colleagues to establish a new category of Best Documentary in the upcoming Oscars event.
Cast

Tikhon Zhiznevsky
Ivan Mayskiy

Darya Zhovner
Juna

Anton Momot
Lev Alperin

Andrey Merzlikin
Ilya Kopalin

Nikita Tarasov
Varlamov

Vasiliy Mishchenko
studio manager

Mikhail Brashinsky
Lev's father

Aleksey Kolgan
Joseph Stalin

Stanislav Strelkov
Nikolay Vlasik

Lev Malishava
Katso

Petr Akimov
soviet soldier

Elvira Sinelnik
Ida Yakovleva

Michael Lerner
Louis Burt Mayer

Austin Basis
David O. Selznick

Robert L. Wilson
Howard Hawks

Taissa Zveiter
Irene Mayer Selznick

Eddie Vincent
reporter

Daniel Lench
Sid Grauman

Mandy May Cheetham
Jane Murfin

Matt Lagan
Fred Beetson

Paul Dinh-McCrillis
photographer

Ilia Volok
Leonid Antonov

Fyodor Lavrov
Golovnya

Oleg Vasilkov
Dubovitsky

Pavel Akimkin
driver

Nikita Kologrivyy
Budarin

Natalya Pavlenkova
Lev's mother

Yuliya Serina
Lilya

Vyacheslav Evlantev
Molkin

Fedor Levin
Bromberg

Gennadiy Vyrypaev
head prefect

Gleb Merkulov
Kalnitsky

Azamat Nagmanov
Dosebiev

Ilya Nikulin
Panchenko

Aleksandr Chernyavskiy
assistant of studio manager

Aleksey Kashnikov
captain

Dmitry Krivochurov
sergeant major

Oleg Tkachev
commissioner

Jana Chigir
female doctor

Evgeny Sakharov
officer

Pavel Shevando
young soldier

Oleg Feoktistov
camera operator

Gennadiy Ivanov
sound director

Bronislava Zakharova
old woman

Aleksei Varuschenko
politruk

Irina Demidkina
Stepanovna

Vladimir Mayzinger
warehouseman

Roman Shmakov
Juna's classmate

Marina Lebedeva
Juna's classmate

Andrey Piskarev
Juna's classmate

Manana Totibadze
Juna's classmate

Evgeny Egorov
Juna's classmate

Yola Sanko
saleswoman

Nikolay Samsonov
German officer

Carol Schlanger
Margaret Myer

Jason Griffith
radio reporter

Benjamin Schnau
Hans Dreier

Kevin Michael Moran
Jesse Louis Lasky

David Neff
Harry Warner

David D'Amico
William Pereira

David Lee Hess
Bernard B. Brown

Joseph Integlia
