World War I

The protagonist of the docudrama is Rodion, a teenager from Odesa who volunteered for the front by claiming to be of the appropriate age. This fifteen-year-old young man would later appear in school textbooks as the famous military commander Rodion Yakovlevich Malinovsky. Dramatic scenes with actors are woven into the documentary narrative of the war that claimed tens of millions of lives and brought an end to four empires, including the Russian Empire. The engrossing Series about this momentous conflict, its tragic consequences, and the heroism of its people, «The First World War», can be watched in our online cinema.