Thriller

19
April

Fear Illusion

Igor Korob, who is a businessman and owner of the large- scale business, once became the victim of the “shakedown”. To protect his property Igor has to face the outrage of 90ties of the twentieth century. Unexpectedly he finds himself in the jail, when he comes out his rights on the huge profitable project are lost.

But the most terrible is to follow. At night-time he suffers from the nightmares about King Solomon, at day time he is not able to trust anybody. The things happening to Igor could be the results of his heated fantasy. Then for the first time he starts to think, what means his fortune came by.

Personal author`s opinion: For the first time Ukrainian film impressed me so much. Probably mostly to the success of the film contributed inimitable Panin.

IMDB: 5,6/10.

Fear Illusion

Trailer:

Directed by:

Alexander Kiriyenko

Cast:

Andrey Panin, Alena Babenko, Alexey Gorbunov, Sergey Garmash, Inga Strelkova-Oboldina, Alexander Semchev, Alexey Petrenko, Victor Saraykin, Davia Babayev, Vitaliy Linetskiy

Production:

Kinovidrodzhennya, Ukraine, 2008

Feature:

>Thriller, Drama

Duration:

81 min.

Additional information:

International Movie Database

1
February

The Oligarch

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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.

26
December

Indigo

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It`s not easy to categorize the new Russian film “Indigo”, that came out in March 2008. It pretends to be the fantasy thriller, but sometimes it looks like comedy. And the most positive emotions are not caused by the jokes of the film, but by the stupid way ther look like on the screen. In general the film could be called the completely failed comedy, and we`ve got used to such phenomena.

The main point of the film is also hardly understandable. It`s not surprizing, that Russian director Roman Prygunov decided to make a film on the popular up-to-date topic of Indigo children, with the intend to create a parody (read: copy) of the stupid American film “X-Men”. And even the film cast was not able to improve the situation. Mikhail Yefremov was really great but… Gosha Kutsenko became the jokes target, because of the numerous films he played during a year.

Indigo