First Oscar (2022) on Netflix
In 1941, with German forces advancing on Moscow, student cameramen Lev Alperin and Ivan Maisky refuse evacuation and ask to film at the front. Both compete for Yuna, an acting student.
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Plot summary
In 1941, German forces advance on Moscow. Two student cameramen, Lev Alperin and Ivan Maisky, decline to be evacuated and ask for permission to film at the front. Each wants to be judged the better cameraman, and both court Yuna, a student in the acting department. When the evacuation starts, Yuna joins a concert troupe, and the two young men go to the front as military cameramen. In Los Angeles, a premiere of the documentary Moscow Strikes Back prompts a committee member to argue for a new Academy Award category.
Cast
- Mikhail Brashinskyas Lev's father
- Elvira Sinelnikas Ida Yakovlevna
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about First Oscar (2022)
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- First Oscar is about the making of Moscow Strikes Back, the Soviet documentary by Ilya Kopalin and Leonid Varlamov that was filmed in record time and in 1943 won the first ever Oscar for best feature-length documentary.
- The project began after the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia invited director Sergey Mokritskiy to the Kremlin to present an award, where producer Yegor Odintsov told him the story of Soviet cinema's first Oscar.
