First Oscar

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.

Tikhon Zhiznevsky

(Ivan Mayskiy)

Anton Momot

(Lev Alperin)

Darya Zhovner

(Juna)

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

Don Yanan