First Squad

Anime

Release date:  

15.10.2009 - Russia - Movie

First Squad: The Moment of Truth is an anime project created by the Russian-Canadian animation company Molot Entertainment and Japan's Studio 4°C. The story is set in 1942, the third year of World War II, at a time when continental Europe lies in ruins, enslaved by the Nazis. But in the East, in Russia, the Red Army is putting up a violent resistance to the legions of the Third Reich. A group of Soviet teenagers with extraordinary abilities have been drafted to form a special unit and 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. Their regular forces helpless against these supernatural warriors, the Red Army's only hope is Nadya - a 14 year old psychic girl who must cross the gulf into the underworld and recruit the souls of her dead friends, the Pioneers of the First Squad, to fight on Russia's behalf.

First Squad: The Moment of Truth is an anime project created by the Russian-Canadian animation company Molot Entertainment and Japan's Studio 4°C. The story is set in 1942, the third year of World War II, at a time when continental Europe lies in ruins, enslaved by the Nazis. But in the East, in Russia, the Red Army is putting up a violent resistance to the legions of the Third Reich. A group of Soviet teenagers with extraordinary abilities have been drafted to form a...Full description »