First Oscar

First Oscar

100 mins | Drama, Action, History | April 21, 2022

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.

First Oscar

100 mins | Drama, Action, History | April 21, 2022

First Oscar
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.
IMDb rating 5.7
Producers New People Film Company
Original title Первый Оскар
Directors Sergey Mokritsky
Writers Yury Nenev, Maxim Budarin, Sergey Mokritsky

Cast

Tikhon Zhiznevsky

as Ivan Mayskiy

Anton Momot

as Lev Alperin

Darya Zhovner

as Juna

Andrey Merzlikin

as Ilya Kopalin

Nikita Tarasov

as Varlamov

Vasiliy Mishchenko

as studio manager

Mikhail Brashinsky

as Lev's father

Alexey 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

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