Moscow International Film Festival

Film catalogue


First Squad: The Moment of Truth // Faasuto Sukuwaddo

( Canada / Japan / Russia, 2009, 73 min. )

Director: Yoshiharu Ashino
Cast: Georgiy Martirosyan, Theodor Schuller, Aleksandr Pashutin, Gennadi Saifulin, Luyobomiras Laucevichus

 

It is 1942. The Red Army is putting up a violent and effective resistance against the German invaders. 14 year-old Nadya is a medium. In a deadly air raid the girl is shell-shocked. Recovering from her concussion, Nadya discovers her new gift – the ability to foresee the «Moments of Truth» – the most critical moments of future combat encounters, in which one person’s actions will decide the outcome one way or the other. Nadya’s ability is indispensable for the classified 6th Division of the Russian Military Intelligence, which is waging a secret war against the Ahnenerbe – an occult order within the SS. The Ahnenerbe summons from the realm of the dead the powerful prince of darkness, Baron von Wolff . To oppose the Baron Nadya decides to enlist the support of her old friends from the beyond – the Pioneers of the First Squad.


Film is screened in the Perspectives Competition


 

Screening shedule

– only for press

19 June

20 June

27 June