Published on: 2026-11-09
Source: Mosfilm Film Studio – An important disclaimer is at the bottom of this article.
The film is based on real events of 1999: militants invaded Dagestan, and fighters from the Lipetsk OMON held the defense there. The film has been in production for about two years. The cast includes Sergey Marin, Irina Pegova, Pavel Chinaryov, Sergey Yatsenyuk, Vadim Tsallati, Rustam Shakov, and others. The film is produced by Chegery Company and the company “Serebro,” with Central Partnership as distributor. As composer Artem Vasilyev told Mosfilm.ru, the producers insisted from the very beginning that the music be performed by a live orchestra.
“This is a truthful, masculine, very ‘sculpted’ story, harsh and at the same time touching. The music functions as the emotional tuning fork of everything happening. The modern military theme changes the film’s sound palette: we combine a live orchestra, synthetic elements, ethnic music, vocalizations, and Caucasian motifs,” says Artyom Vasilyev.
The soundscape of the film turned out to be multi-genre. There are low male choral voices with the orchestra, sounding almost like military music. There is an in-frame guitar song that the characters sing before the battle. The orchestra leads the battle scenes, and in other scenes ethnic motifs are added to the music. The film also features a song by Alexander Rosenbaum. At the conductor’s podium is People’s Artist of the Russian Federation Sergey Skripka, sound engineer Gennady Papin. This time, the orchestra is chamber-sized, and the recording took place over two sessions. Next up are mixing of the material and rerecording (final mixing of the soundtrack, note) in 5.1 format.
For Artyom Vasilyev, the military theme is not new. His filmography includes original music for nearly 70 works in cinema and television. The composer emphasized that the time of the Great Patriotic War requires one musical language, while the modern military theme sometimes calls for a radically different one. The events reflected in the film occurred during the composer’s conscious age, so for him, by his own admission, it is a living history. He had already worked with director Leonid Plyaskin on the series “Stranger” (Channel One).
“Leonid has a special method: he feels the frame, rhythm, and tempo-rhythm very well, so we essentially compose the music together. That is, it’s not written separately and then sent for approval: we sit next to each other, try things out, look for options. It’s real co-creation! Not every composer is comfortable with such an approach, but it works for us. And the fact that the film production takes a long time actually helped us: we worked through the music for each scene in great detail,” summed up Artem Vasilyev.
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