خلاصه داستان : پس از آنکه عملیات پلیس مسکو برای دستگیری یک باند تبهکار با شکست روبه‌رو می‌شود و تصاویر این ناکامی از تلویزیون پخش می‌شود، اعتبار پلیس به‌شدت آسیب می‌بیند. کاتیا، مسئول روابط عمومی پلیس، پیشنهاد می‌دهد تعقیب و دستگیری مجرمان به یک برنامه تلویزیونی شبیه نمایش واقع‌نما تبدیل شود تا وجهه پلیس را بازسازی کند؛ اما...

A gang of crooks robbing cash collectors, run into a police surveillance team and the inadequate police response results in a gunfight. A TV crew on assignment in the area happens to capture this humiliation on camera, and this example of police incompetence is soon the lead story in every news bulletin. Public confidence in law and order now suffers irreparable harm. The head of the Moscow force welcomes a public search-and-destroy operation against these thugs, the brainchild of Katya, his PR director. She proposes that the capture of this dangerous gang be transformed into a live TV show of a kind never seen before. At this point she cannot know that the gang leader's life-and-death struggle with the police is destined to lead to a media duel. Besieged in a huge apartment block, the crooks hold hostage a father and his son and daughter. A massive special forces rescue operation is mounted but fails miserably.

خلاصه داستان : در طول جنگ جهانی دوم ارتش روسیه گروه ویژه ای به نام "Zvezda" را برای جنگ با نازی ها در حیاط خانه خود فرستاد....

In the summer of 1944, the Nazi Armies prepare a massive Tank Division named 'Viking" for the offensive on occupied Russian land. The Russian Army's special group of seven snipers named "Zvezda" is sent for a reconnaissance operation behind the enemy lines in the back of the Nazi Tank Division. Two previous Russian groups never came back. The seven Russians know that they are going to an almost certain Death for the sake of Victory.