Arsus and the other Guardians are trained in the Patriots' facility and are given suits and weapons. Unfortunately, the real Kuratov releases poison gas to kill him. She sends Kuratov's former rival to study one of Kuratov's clones. Afterward, Major Elena frees the other team members from Kuratov's laboratory. He has stayed the same age while his wife and grandchildren have grown older and died. While Ler recovers, he reflects on the fact that his superhuman abilities prevent him from aging normally. When a collaborator within the Russian military, Major-General Nikolai Dolgov, asks Kuratov for a reward for his help, Kuratov strangles him to death. He uses a force field to protect his beacon-tower and destroy several jet fighters that are sent to stop him. He intends to transmit a signal through an old Soviet satellite, which will then be sent to every other satellite orbiting Earth, and use it to seize control of all technology in the world. Using them, he launches an invasion of Moscow and makes preparations to use the Ostankino Tower and the Federation Tower for his Module-2 Project. He later goes to a military facility at Noginsk to take control of the tanks and other vehicles stationed there. This angers him and he keeps three of them trapped within a magnetic force field and injures Ler. Kuratov offers the Guardians a chance to join him but they refuse. Their first task is to raid Kuratov's laboratory within an old factory, but they are captured. She finds Ler spending his time meditating in the Khor Virap Monastery in Armenia Khan living on the steppes of Kazakhstan Arsus in a remote cabin on the Putorana Plateau in northern Siberia and Xenia performing stunts in a circus in Moscow. This leads to the Ministry of Defence holding a meeting and deciding to revive the Patriot organization under the leadership of Major Elena Larina and to locate their missing super agents. In the present day, several walking robots used in a training exercise turn against their supervising officials and kill them. After the explosion, Arsus, Ler, Khan, and Xenia go into hiding for years. He also created an army of clones of himself, and sets out to prove to the world that he is a genius. This gives him the power to generate electricity and control machines. He rebuilds his damaged body making himself into a cyborg. When the military is summoned to arrest him, he bombs the Patriot laboratory, surviving because he was covered with some chemicals. This prompts Professor August Kuratov (Stanislav Shirin), creator of Module-1, to flee to the remote wilderness, away from Soviet authorities, to continue working on his experiments. The program succeeds where a second program called Module-1 fails. Finally, Xenia can become invisible under water. Lernik, codenamed Ler, has the ability to control earth and stone. Temirkhan, codenamed Khan, has super-speed and wields a pair of curved swords.
Arseniy, codenamed Arsus, can change into a huge, incredibly strong bear-man. The team includes representatives of the different nationalities of the Soviet Union. ( October 2020) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)ĭuring the Cold War, a secret organization known as "Patriot" gathers a team of Soviet superheroes, altering and augmenting the DNA of many selected individuals throughout the former state's territory, in order to defend the motherland from superhuman threats.
Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. This article's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed. The film was released in the United States with an English dub by Shout! Factory on 5 December 2017. It debuted atop the Russian box office, however its gross quickly dropped, and Guardians is believed to be a box office bomb. Guardians was met with strongly negative critical reception in Russian media, with many considering it to be one of the worst films ever made. Each of the protagonists' superpowers reflect the strengths and traditions of the people of the USSR.
The team includes representatives of the different nationalities of the USSR. The film tells the story of a team of Soviet superheroes created during the Cold War.
Guardians ( Russian: Защитники, romanized: Zaschitniki or Zashchitniki) is a 2017 Russian superhero film directed by Russian-Armenian filmmaker Sarik Andreasyan and starring Sebastien Sisak, Anton Pampushnyy, Sanzhar Madiyev, Alina Lanina, Valeriya Shkirando and Stanislav Shirin.