Archive for February, 2009

Nevertheless Kostya Kot has survived. He serves his fifteen years for that stupid attempted robbery. Dimon Oshparenniy certainly suffers from his betrayal. He has moved ahead with his legal business and helps his ex-partner get out of the prison. Kot has got now the new name and new “boomer”. But from the very first minutes of freedom he understands, that his prospects are not so good. All his pretty life, plans and love stayed behind in the first film, when he had left for Moscow to criminal night “date” from his beloved woman.

Once in a blue moon the second part of the successful picture could be better, than first one. In this case Petr Buslov decided to change the genre of the film. So, if you expect to see in the second part the criminal adventures of the favourite heroes, you`ll be disappointed. And, if you are ready to dig deeper, you`ll like it. And the Vdovitchenko`s hero during the two hours proves to the viewer the truth: he who had once turned off the right road risks to find himself in the desperate labyrinth. Where he can only dream about the faraway country Goa.

Trailer:

Directed by:

Petr Buslov

Cast:

Vladimir Vdovitchenkov, Andrey Merzlikin, Svetlana Ustinova, Nikolay Olyalin, Alexander Tsurkan, Felix Antipov, Yuriy Kolokolnikov, Anna Churina, Alexander Golubev, Konstantin Strelnikov

Production:

STV Film Company, Pigmalion Production, Russia,2006

Feature:

Drama, Criminal, Action

Duration:

110 min.

Russia in 90ties of the past century was politically and socially instable with windfall money and criminal shoot-outs. The power and business can live in peace just till the moment, when appear officials at the same time trying to seem patriots and to turn the money flow pro domo sua. One of such “hawks” – is Koretskiy (Aleander Baluyev). He starts the “crusade” against the authoritative business owner of the independent TV channel “Infocar”, Platon Makovskiy (Vladimir Mashkov). Firstly Mashkov is given a possibility “to share”, but after his attempts to step in politics – he is blown up. The investigation held by the too much honest and zealous officer Shmatko (Andrey Krasko) clear, that Platon Makovskiy is alive…

The scandal Pavel Lungin`s film was rumoured long before its première. The picture cinematized the book “Big Share” written by Yuliy Durov. Many are of the opinion, that the real prototype of the Makovskiy is the disgraced businessman Boris Berezovskiy, cause Juliy Durov very long was his “right hand”. But Makovskiy is more likely to be the summarized portrait of the authoritative businessman from 90ties. Koretskiy brilliantly played by Baluyev is the exact copy of the certain security officers, that overfilled the chain of command then. “The Oligarch” is brave and dynamic film precisely showing the realities of that time.

Directed by:

Pavel Lungin

Cast:

Vladimir Mashkov, Alexander Baluyev, Mariya Mironova, Andrey Krasko, Levani Uchaneyshvilli, Mikhail Vasserbaum, Sergey Yushkevich, Alexander Samoylenko, Natalya Kolyakanova, Vladimir Gusev

Production:

arte France Cinéma, Catherine Dussart Productions (CDP), France 2 Cinéma, Gimages, Film company STV, Kominter, Magnat, Network Movie, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF), Germany - Russia - France, 2002

Feature:

Drama, Thriller, Criminal, Detective

Duration:

123 min.