Guardians, A Film About Soviet Superheroes Fighting Evil to Defend the USSR

Official Russian Trailers has shared a teaser trailer for Zashchitniki (Guardians), an upcoming Russian superhero film directed by Sarik Andreasyan. The film will follow a group of Soviet superheroes who work together as a team for USSR to fight villainous foes. It is set to release on February 23rd, 2017.

Set during the Cold War, a secret organization named “Patriot” gathered a group of Soviet superheroes, altering and augmenting the DNA of four individuals, in order to defend the homeland from supernatural threats. The group includes representatives of the different nationalities of the Soviet Union, which each one of them have long been hiding their true identity. In hard times, they settled down to business and gather to defend their homeland.

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