First Oscar (2022)
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.
Director:
Sergey Mokritsky
Writers:
Yury Nenev, Sergey Mokritsky, Maxim Budarin.
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Tikhon Zhiznevsky as Ivan Mayskiy |
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Darya Zhovner as Juna |
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Anton Momot as Lev Alperin |
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Andrey Merzlikin as Ilya Kopalin |
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Nikita Tarasov as Varlamov |
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Vasiliy Mishchenko as studio manager |
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Mikhail Brashinsky as Lev's father |
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Sergey Puskepalis as |
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Aleksey Kolgan as Joseph Stalin |
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Stanislav Strelkov as Nikolay Vlasik |
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Lev Malishava as Katso |
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Petr Akimov as soviet soldier |
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Elvira Sinelnik as Ida Yakovleva |
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Michael Lerner as Louis Burt Mayer |
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Austin Basis as David O. Selznick |
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Robert L. Wilson as Howard Hawks |
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Taissa Zveiter as Irene Mayer Selznick |
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Eddie Vincent as reporter |
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Daniel Lench as Sid Grauman |
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Mandy May Cheetham as Jane Murfin |
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Matt Lagan as Fred Beetson |
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Paul Dinh-McCrillis as photographer |
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Ilia Volok as Leonid Antonov |
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Fyodor Lavrov as Golovnya |
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Oleg Vasilkov as Dubovitsky |
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Pavel Akimkin as driver |
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Nikita Kologrivyy as Budarin |
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Natalya Pavlenkova as Lev's mother |
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Yuliya Serina as Lilya |
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Vyacheslav Evlantev as Molkin |
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Fedor Levin as Bromberg |
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Gennadiy Vyrypaev as head prefect |
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Gleb Merkulov as Kalnitsky |
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Azamat Nagmanov as Dosebiev |
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Ilya Nikulin as Panchenko |
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Aleksandr Chernyavskiy as assistant of studio manager |
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Aleksey Kashnikov as captain |
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Dmitry Krivochurov as sergeant major |
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Oleg Tkachev as commissioner |
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Jana Chigir as female doctor |
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Evgeny Sakharov as officer |
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Pavel Shevando as young soldier |
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Oleg Feoktistov as camera operator |
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Gennadiy Ivanov as sound director |
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Bronislava Zakharova as old woman |
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Aleksei Varuschenko as politruk |
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Irina Demidkina as Stepanovna |
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Vladimir Mayzinger as warehouseman |
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Roman Shmakov as Juna's classmate |
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Marina Lebedeva as Juna's classmate |
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Andrey Piskarev as Juna's classmate |
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Manana Totibadze as Juna's classmate |
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Evgeny Egorov as Juna's classmate |
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Yola Sanko as saleswoman |
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Nikolay Samsonov as German officer |
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Carol Schlanger as Margaret Myer |
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Jason Griffith as radio reporter |
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Benjamin Schnau as Hans Dreier |
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Kevin Michael Moran as Jesse Louis Lasky |
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David Neff as Harry Warner |
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David D'Amico as William Pereira |
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David Lee Hess as Bernard B. Brown |
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Joseph Integlia as |
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Don Yanan as |
| Camera | Andrey Naydenov | Director of Photography |
| Art | Lyubov Ivanova | Production Design |
| Art | Valery Arkhipov | Production Design |
| Editing | Anna Kruty | Editor |
| Production | Natalya Mokritskaya | Producer |
| Writing | Yury Nenev | Screenplay |
| Directing | Sergey Mokritsky | Director |
| Writing | Sergey Mokritsky | Screenplay |
| Writing | Maxim Budarin | Screenplay |
| Production | Mila Rozanova | Producer |
| Production | Vadim Vereshchagin | Producer |
| Camera | Egor Povolotskiy | Director of Photography |
| Art | Yana Veselova | Production Design |
| Sound | Alexei Aigui | Original Music Composer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Aleksey Kamyshov | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Darya Zonova | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Yuliya Kostomarova | Makeup Designer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Olga Tarnovetskaya | Makeup Designer |
| Sound | Evgeny Goryainov | Sound Engineer |
| Directing | Elena Didevich | Assistant Director |
| Production | Polina Bystritskaya | Casting Director |
| Production | Mark Rutman | Casting Director |
| Production | Egor Odintsov | Producer |
| Production | Dariya Voloshko | Executive Producer |
| Production | Yuliya Safonova | Executive Producer |
| Production | Varvara Kotelevskaya | Executive Producer |
| Production | Nina Filatkina | Line Producer |
| Production | Olya Zimarova | Line Producer |
| Production | Denis Krupnov | Co-Producer |
| Production | Anna Krupnova | Co-Producer |
| Art | Olga Oparina | Art Direction |
| Crew | Anna Slivka | Script |
| Directing | Tatiana Bychkovskaya | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Nick Johnson | Assistant Director |