Russian Superhero Movie Guardians Trailer Released

04/15/2016 12:05 pm EDT

The trailer for the Russian superhero movie Guardians has been released online.

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, each one of them having long been hiding their true identity. In hard times, they got down to business and gathered to defend their homeland.

Guardians is directed by Sarik Andreasyan and stars Anton Pampushniy, Sanzhar Madiev, Sebastien Sisak, Alina Lanina, Valeria Shkirando, Vyacheslav Razbegaev, Stanislav Shirin.

Guardians opens in Russia on Feb. 23, 2017.

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