NIGHT WATCH (NOCHNOJ DOZOR) is the first installment of a trilogy based on the best-selling sci-fi novels of Sergei Lukyanenko entitled Night Watch, Day Watch and Dusk Watch. The film is the official Russian contender for Best Foreign Language Film for the 2005 Academy Awards.

Set in contemporary Moscow, NIGHT WATCH (NOCHNOI DOZOR) revolves around the delicate balance between the forces of light and darkness—the result of a medieval truce. As night falls, the dark forces battle the super-human “Others” of the Night Watch, whose mission is to patrol and protect. But there is constant fear that an ancient prophecy will come true—that a powerful “Other” will rise up, be tempted by one of the sides, and tip the balance, plunging the world into a renewed war between dark and light, the results of which would be catastrophic.

DIR Timur Bekmambetov; SCR Timur Bekmambetov and Laeta Kalogridis; PROD Konstantin Ernst and Anatoli Maksimov. Russia, 2004, color, 114 min. Rated R.