Guardians (film)
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| Directed by | Sarik Andreasyan |
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| Written by | Andrei Gavrilov |
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| Music by | Georgiy Zheryakov |
| Cinematography | Maksim Osadchiy-Korytkovskiy |
| Edited by | Georgiy Isaakyan |
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| Distributed by | Turbo Films |
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| Country | Russia |
| Language | Russian |
| Budget | $5.4 million (320 million RUB) |
| Box office | $4.6 million (273 million RUB) |
Guardians (Russian: Защитники, translit. Zashchitniki) is a 2017 Russian superhero film directed by Russian-Armenian filmmaker Sarik Andreasyan and starring Sebastien Sisak, Anton Pampushnyy, Sanzhar Madiyev, Alina Lanina, Valeriya Shkirando and Stanislav Shirin.
The film tells about a team of Soviet superheroes created during the Cold War. The team includes representatives of the different nationalities of the USSR. Each of the protagonists' superpowers reflect the strengths and traditions of the people of the USSR.
Guardians was met with strongly negative critical reception in Russian media. The movie debuted at the top of Russian box office, however its gross quickly dropped, and Guardians is believed to be a box office bomb.
The film will be released by Shout Factory on DVD in the USA on September 5, 2017.
During the Cold War, a secret organization "Patriot" gathered a team of Soviet superheroes, altering and augmenting the DNA of many selected individuals throughout the former state's territory, in order to defend the homeland from supernatural threats. The team includes representatives of the different nationalities of the Soviet Union, while each one of them have long been hiding their true identity.
It was the brainchild of a certain scientist, whose success led to his rival Professor August Kuratov (Stanislav Shirin) to attempt to escape and develop his own failed Module-1 project away from the Soviet authorities. When the military was summoned to arrest him, he bombed the Patriots' laboratory, but survived as he was covered with some chemicals. He builds a machine and augments it on himself to use his newfound powers to generate electricity and control machines, and creates an army of clones as his soldiers, to prove to the world that he is a genius.
In the present day, several walking robots that are used in an exercise turn against their supervising officials and kill them, leading to the Ministry of Defence holding a meeting and decides to use the "Patriot" organization again to find their members, lead by Major Elena Larina (Valeriya Shkirando). Four of them are found and assembled: Ler (Sebestien Sisak), who spends his time meditating in the Khor Virap Monastery in Armenia; Khan (Sanzhar Madiyev), who slices and hacks through several attackers on a plain in Kazakhstan; Ursus (Anton Pampushnyy), who attacks several hunters who trespassed into his cabin in Putorana Plateau in northern Siberia; and Xenia (Alina Lanina), who performs stunts in a circus in Moscow. Their first task is to raid Kuratov's laboratory within an old factory, but they are captured.
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