
Five Came Back(2017)
Five acclaimed contemporary directors tell the story of five legendary Hollywood filmmakers who enlisted in the armed forces to document World War II.


March 2022. The Somalia battalion, as part of the main forces, was sent to storm fortified Mariupol in order to ensure the possibility of an offensive by the Russian Armed Forces. On the outskirts of the city, no one yet knows the scale of the genocide to be perpetrated by Russian soldiers.

Maksim Fadeev
self/narrator

Vasiliy Nazarenko
self - «Nazar» (archive footage)

Igor Galaktionov
self - «Babai» (archive footage)

Sergey Glushak
self - «Frits» (archive footage)

Dmitriy Begunets
self - «Egor» (archive footage)

Evgeniy Rozhnev
self - «Sever» (archive footage)

Nikolay Platonov
self - «Platon» (archive footage)
Artyom Zakharov
self - «Dzhaf» (archive footage)
Igor Ulyanov
self - «Smelyy» (archive footage)

Sergey Nechiporenko
self - «Nemets» (archive footage)
At the Edge of the Abyss is a war & politics, documentary series that first aired in 2024. Created by Vyacheslav Butusov, it stars Maksim Fadeev, Vasiliy Nazarenko, Igor Galaktionov. March 2022. The Somalia battalion, as part of the main forces, was sent to storm fortified Mariupol in order to ensure the possibility of an offensive by the Russian Armed Forces. On the outskirts of the city, no one yet knows the scale of the genocide to be perpetrated by Russian soldiers.
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