"First Sqaud" is directed by Studio 4°C director, animator Yoshiharu Asino, co-written and produced by Michael Spritz, Alexey Klimov and Eiko Tanaka, featuring character development by Hirofumi Nakata and music by Japanese composer DJ Krush :
"...set during the opening days of World War II on the Eastern Front, the main characters are a group of Soviet teenagers with extraordinary abilities. Drafted to form a special unit to fight the invading German army, they are opposed by a German officer, who is attempting to raise from the dead a supernatural army of crusaders from the 12th-century 'Order of the Sacred Cross', aka the 'Teutonic Knights'.
"Most of the teenage crew die, except for 'Nadia', who is taken to a secret Soviet lab that studies supernatural phenomena, including contact with the dead.
"There, in the 'Gloomy Valley', she meets her dead friends and tries to persuade them to continue fighting..."
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