Russian troops occupied Paris. Russia became the first power in the world. Now everything seems possible. Young winners, guards officers are confident 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.

The Union of Salvation formed in 1816, also known as the Society of True and Loyal Sons of the Fatherland since 1817, was the first secret political society of the Decembrists.

The Decembrist revolt or the Decembrist uprising
took place in Imperial Russia on 26 December 1825 Russian army officers led about 3,000 soldiers in a protest against Tsar Nicholas I’s assumption of the throne after his elder brother Constantine removed himself from the line of succession. Because these events occurred in December, the rebels were called the Decembrists.

About the upcoming movie

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

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.