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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