First Squad: The Moment of Truth(2009)

movie - first aired/released 2009-05-13 - 73 min - audience 6.2

Fantasy, Animation, Action, Science Fiction

Directed by Alexey Klimov, Vladimir Zhelezniakov, Yoshiharu Ashino

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 officer who is attempting to raise from the dead a supernatural army of crusaders from the 12th-century Order of the Sacred Cross.