Union of Salvation (film)

Union of Salvation (Союз спасения) is an upcoming Russian historical war film directed by Andrei Kravchuk and co-produced by Konstantin Ernst and Anatoly Maksimov.

The story about the first war, participants took part in the French invasion of Russia of 1812, which dreams to change the Russian Empire. Tsarist Russian in 1816, several officers of the Russian Imperial Guard founded a society known as the Union of Salvation of Army officers created. The revolt occurred on December 1825, when about 3,000 officers and soldiers refused to swear allegiance to the new tsar, this group of conspirators has become known as the Decembrist revolt lay in the Napoleonic Wars, in the 19th century in Saint Petersburg took place a revolt organized by the nobles confederate. Their objective was to transform Russia into a constitutional state and to abolish the serfdom.

The Life Guard Horse Regiment, the main actors are: Leonid Bichevin, Maksim Matveyev, Pavel Priluchny, Ivan Yankovsky, Anton Shagin, Ivan Kolesnikov, Aleksandr Domogarov, Igor Petrenko, Sergey Peregudov, Vitaliy Kishchenko, Aleksei Guskov, Aleksandr Ustyugov, Sergey Koltakov, Vladislav Vetrov and Artyom Tkachenko in supporting roles, the army of the Russian Empire.

Union of Salvation is scheduled to be released in the Russian Federation by 20th Century Fox CIS on December 26, 2019, in 2D, Atmos. According to the website of the Union of Cinematographers of Russia, the picture's budget in 2016 was estimated at 700 million rubles.

Plot
The film tells about the guards officers of the Russian army, who defeated the French. They are ready to sacrifice everything, than it is possible for the sake of equality and freedom.

Russian troops occupied Paris. Russia became the first power in the world. Now everything seems possible. Young winners, guards officers, are sure that equality and freedom will come – here and now. For this they are ready to sacrifice everything – position, wealth, love, life ... and the country itself.

Production
The film Union of Salvation is a project of the Direktsiya kino (the main partner of which is Channel One of Russian television) and the company 20th Century Fox CIS. For the first time this project was announced in 2013. The script was written by Nikita Vysotskiy, he originally appeared as a director. And now in the director's chair Andrei Kravchuk, who worked with the Direktsiya kino on the films Admiral, a 2008 and Viking (film), a 2016 historical was film.

The film's cameraman, Igor Grinyakin, who also previously worked on the projects of the Direktsiya kino. Producers of the film - Konstantin Ernst and Anatoliy Maksimov.

Filming
Principal photography began on spring, 2018. Filming a film for the Union of Salvation, which tells of the revolt of the Decembrists, continues in Saint-Petersburg and Belgorod. The first teaser pictures have appeared in theaters.

Release
Union of Salvation is scheduled to be released in the Russian Federation by 20th Century Fox CIS on December 26, 2019.

Marketing
The first trailer was released on December 14, 2018.