Voroshilov Sharpshooter (film)
The Voroshilov Sharpshooter | |
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Cinematography | Gennadi Engstrem |
Edited by | Vera Kruglova |
Music by | Vladimir Dashkevich |
Production company | NTV-PROFIT |
Distributed by | Most-Cinematograph |
Release date |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
Country | Russia |
Language | Russian |
The Voroshilov Sharpshooter (
Plot
In the summer of 1999, a
Frustrated at the offenders having escaped justice, Ivan sells his
When a female neighbour goes on a trip, she leaves Ivan the keys to her flat so he can look after her parrot. Ivan tours the flat and discovers that it is situated directly in front of and overlooks the offenders’ flat. From there, he begins to administer vigilante justice. Taking care not to kill the offenders, he instead cripples them. First, he shoots Zvorygin's genitals through a bottle of sparkling wine. Secondly, he causes Chukhanov's brand new car to explode, by shooting the gas tank: although Chukhanov survives, the lower half of his body is severely burnt.
Nikolai figures out that Ivan must be behind both accidents, ordering the search of Ivan's house and the second flat. However, police find nothing (Alexei, the local police watcher, had found and hid the rifle in his own house a day before that). Still, Nikolai threatens Ivan, saying that should anything happen to his son, he will face severe consequences. Ivan interrupts him, saying that something has already happened (meaning that Vadim becoming a rapist clearly shows something has happened to him). Nikolai, however, takes his words literally, and rushes home, shooting out the door lock to open it (not knowing a paranoid Vadim has barricaded the door). Following the shot, Vadim shoots back through the door with a shotgun, wounding his father and, after days of fright, losing his sanity.
In the epilogue Alexei tells Ivan of the hidden rifle and unofficially confiscates it, and at home Katya sings again, signaling her recovery and the return of domestic harmony, which moves Ivan to tears.
Cast
- Mikhail Ulyanovas Ivan Fyodorovich Afonin, pensioner
- Anna Sinyakina as Katya Afonina, Ivan Fyodorovich's granddaughter
- Aleksandr Porokhovshchikov as Nikolai Petrovich Pashutin, police colonel, Vadim's father
- Vladislav Galkin as Alexei Podberyozkin, local policeman
- Irina Rozanova as Olga Ivanovna Afonina, Katya's mother
- Ilya Drevnov as Vadim Pashutin
- Alexei Makarov as Boris Chukhanov
- Marat Basharov as Igor Zvorygin
- Karen Muradyan as David «Dodik», colleague and roommate of Olga
- Sergei Aprelsky as gun seller #1
- Aleksey Shevchenkov as gun seller #2
- Oleg Komarov as gun dealer
- Sergei Garmash as police captain Kashaev
- Vitaly Logvinovsky as domino player
- Vladimir Semago as investigator Shevelyov
- Georgy Martirosyan as prosecutor
Production
Anna Sinyakina claimed to have been replaced by a body double in the rape scene. [1]
Differences from the book
For Ivan's first strike, he shoots the student's genitals. This diverges from the book where he shoots him in the leg.
Reactions
The film proved controversial, for its graphic and violent features with some film critics describing it as a call to violence.[2]
Several subsequent real life cases of vigilante justice have been compared to the film.[3][4]
See also
- The Virgin Spring
- The Last House on the Left(1972 film)
- Death Wish (1974 film)
- I Spit on Your Grave
- Sudden Impact
- Rape and revenge film
References
- ^ "Kak sejchas vyglyadit aktrisa Anna Sinyakina". www.kp.ru. Retrieved 2022-01-29.
- ^ ""Московским слезам провинция не верит", Argumenti i Fakti, 23 June 1999". Archived from the original on 29 March 2012. Retrieved 29 March 2012.
- ^ “The Rifleman of the Voroshilov Regiment” hits Rostov-on-Don Komsomolskaya Pravda, 1 July 2008
- ^ "А был ли «ворошиловский стрелок»?" Argumenti i Fakti, 9 April 2009