Antikiller
Antikiller | |
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Mikhail Ulyanov | |
Cinematography | Anton Antonov |
Edited by | Bénédicte Brunet Olga Grinshpun |
Distributed by | Central Partnership |
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Running time | 114 minutes |
Country | Russia |
Language | Russian |
Budget | US$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 (
Cast
- Gosha Kutsenko as Major Korenev, aka Fox.
- Mikhail Ulyanovas Father
- Sergey Shakurov as Cross
- Aleksandr Belyavskiyas King
- Ivan Bortnik as Bedbug
- Valentin Golubenko as Gangreen
- Aleksandr Baluev as Shaman
- Yevgeni Sidikhinas Barcass
- Viktor Sukhorukov as Ambal
- Mikhail Yefremovas Banker
- Viktoriya Tolstoganova as Tamara
- Vyacheslav Razbegaev as Metis
- Polina Sidikhina as daughter of mobster "Longboat"
- Yuriy Dumchev as Valet
- Vyacheslav Molokov as Bobovkin
- Sergey Veksler as Major Litvinov
External links
- Antikiller at IMDb