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Dominican Rep. First Squad: The Moment of Truth
- Original title
- Faasuto Sukuwaddo (First Squad: The Moment of Truth)
- Year
- 2009
- Running time
- 73 min.
- Country
Russia- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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Animation
- Music
- Cinematography
- Animation
- Producer
- Co-production Russia-Japan-Canada;
- Genre
- Animation. War. Fantasy | II World War
- Synopsis
- First Squad (Japanese: ファーストスクワッド Fāsuto sukuwaddo, Russian: Пе́рвый отря́д, Perviy otryad) is a joint animation project of Japan's Studio 4°C and Russian authors with Molot Entertainment. It won the Kommersant newspaper's prize.[2]
Set during the opening days of World War II on the Eastern Front. Its main cast are a group of Soviet teenagers with extraordinary abilities; the teenagers have been drafted to form a special unit to fight the invading German army. They are opposed by a Schutzstaffel (SS) officer who is attempting to raise from the dead a supernatural army of crusaders from the 12th-century Order of the Sacred Cross and enlist them in the Nazi cause. Pretty soon all the teenagers die, except for the protagonist Nadia. She is taken to a secret Soviet lab that studies supernatural phenomena, especially contacts with the dead. Nadia's task is to dive into the world of the dead for reconnaissance. There, in the Gloomy Valley, she meets her dead friends and tries to persuade them to continue fighting.
The animation is interspersed with mockumentary "present day" sequences, where Soviet and German war veterans, a historian and a psychologist comment real historical events and the events of the plot as if they were historical.
- Awards
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2009: Sitges Film Festival: Nominated for Best Animated Feature2009: Moscow Film Festival: Kommersant Weekend Prize
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