
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.
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Tikhon Zhiznevsky as Ivan Mayskiy

Darya Zhovner as Juna

Anton Momot as Lev Alperin

Andrey Merzlikin as Ilya Kopalin

Nikita Tarasov as Varlamov

Vasiliy Mishchenko as studio manager

Mikhail Brashinsky as Lev's father

Sergey Puskepalis as

Aleksey Kolgan as Joseph Stalin

Stanislav Strelkov as Nikolay Vlasik

Lev Malishava as Katso

Petr Akimov as soviet soldier

Elvira Sinelnik as Ida Yakovleva

Michael Lerner as Louis Burt Mayer

Austin Basis as David O. Selznick

Robert L. Wilson as Howard Hawks

Taissa Zveiter as Irene Mayer Selznick

Eddie Vincent as reporter

Daniel Lench as Sid Grauman

Mandy May Cheetham as Jane Murfin

Matt Lagan as Fred Beetson

Paul Dinh-McCrillis as photographer

Ilia Volok as Leonid Antonov

Fyodor Lavrov as Golovnya

Oleg Vasilkov as Dubovitsky

Pavel Akimkin as driver

Nikita Kologrivyy as Budarin

Natalya Pavlenkova as Lev's mother

Yuliya Serina as Lilya

Vyacheslav Evlantev as Molkin

Fedor Levin as Bromberg

Gennadiy Vyrypaev as head prefect

Gleb Merkulov as Kalnitsky

Azamat Nagmanov as Dosebiev

Ilya Nikulin as Panchenko

Aleksandr Chernyavskiy as assistant of studio manager

Aleksey Kashnikov as captain

Dmitry Krivochurov as sergeant major

Oleg Tkachev as commissioner

Jana Chigir as female doctor

Evgeny Sakharov as officer

Pavel Shevando as young soldier

Oleg Feoktistov as camera operator

Gennadiy Ivanov as sound director

Bronislava Zakharova as old woman

Aleksei Varuschenko as politruk

Irina Demidkina as Stepanovna

Vladimir Mayzinger as warehouseman

Roman Shmakov as Juna's classmate

Marina Lebedeva as Juna's classmate

Andrey Piskarev as Juna's classmate

Manana Totibadze as Juna's classmate

Evgeny Egorov as Juna's classmate

Yola Sanko as saleswoman

Nikolay Samsonov as German officer

Carol Schlanger as Margaret Myer

Jason Griffith as radio reporter

Benjamin Schnau as Hans Dreier

Kevin Michael Moran as Jesse Louis Lasky

David Neff as Harry Warner

David D'Amico as William Pereira

David Lee Hess as Bernard B. Brown

Joseph Integlia as

Don Yanan as
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