First Squad is a joint animation project of Japan's Studio 4°C and Russian authors with Molot Entertainment. It won the Kommersant newspaper's prize. 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 and enlist them in the Nazi cause. Most of... the teenage crew die, except for the protagonist Nadia. She is taken to a secret Soviet lab that studies supernatural phenomena, especially contacts with the dead. Nadia's task is to dive into the world of the dead for reconnaissance. There, in the Gloomy Valley, she meets her dead friends and tries to persuade them to continue fighting.
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| Release date: | 2009 |
| Directed by: | Misha Shprits, Aljoscha Klimov, Yoshiharu Ashino |
| Runtime: | 70 Minutes |
| Producer: | Misha Shprits, Aljoscha Klimov, Eiko Tanaka |
| Editor: | Sergey Akimov, Kumiko Sakamoto, João Da Costa Pinto |
| Music by: | DJ Krush |
| Cinematography: | Sergey Akimov, Aleksandr Aleshnikov, Kumiko Sakamoto |
| Screenplay by: | Misha Shprits, Aljoscha Klimov |
| Genre: | Animation, Science Fiction, Fantasy |