Antikiller

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Antikiller
Mikhail Ulyanov
CinematographyAnton Antonov
Edited byBénédicte Brunet
Olga Grinshpun
Distributed byCentral Partnership
Release date
  • 1 August 2002 (2002-08-01)
Running time
114 minutes
CountryRussia
LanguageRussian
BudgetUS$5 million
Box office$340,312 (Russia)

Antikiller (Russian: Антикиллер) is a 2002 Russian crime film directed by Egor Konchalovsky. It portrays a brutal war between obnoxious crime gangs and a one-man vigilante, a former police officer. The movie is based on Danil Koretsky’s novel of the same name, which has sold five million copies in the countries of the former Soviet Union and has acquired cult status among readers of Russian pulp fiction. Like the novel, the film became the box office leader among Russian films in 2002.

Plot

Former criminal investigator, Major Korenev, nicknamed Fox, gets out of jail, where he spent many years after being betrayed by his corrupt colleagues, and settles scores with his old and new enemies.

The film uncovers the anatomy of the beginning of Russian economical boom which began the in 1990s and the many varieties of crime which came with it. Fox (

Mikhail Ulyanov) modeled on Don Vito Corleone
.

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