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.
as Ivan Mayskiy
as Juna
as Lev Alperin
as Ilya Kopalin
as Varlamov
as studio manager
as Lev's father
as Joseph Stalin
as Nikolay Vlasik
as Katso
as soviet soldier
as Ida Yakovleva
as Louis Burt Mayer
as David O. Selznick
as Howard Hawks
as Irene Mayer Selznick
as reporter
as Sid Grauman
as Jane Murfin
as Fred Beetson
as photographer
as Leonid Antonov
as Golovnya
as Dubovitsky
as driver
as Budarin
as Lev's mother
as Lilya
as Molkin
as Bromberg
as head prefect
as Kalnitsky
as Dosebiev
as Panchenko
as assistant of studio manager
as captain
as sergeant major
as commissioner
as female doctor
as officer
as young soldier
as camera operator
as sound director
as old woman
as politruk
as Stepanovna
as warehouseman
as Juna's classmate
as Juna's classmate
as Juna's classmate
as Juna's classmate
as Juna's classmate
as saleswoman
as German officer
as Margaret Myer
as radio reporter
as Hans Dreier
as Jesse Louis Lasky
as Harry Warner
as William Pereira
as Bernard B. Brown
