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2013

1h 39m

Action

Crime

Drama

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A high-ranking Russian police officer accidentally runs over and kills a child, then tries to cover up the crime.

J. R. Jones

Chicago Reader

Oct 10, 2013

Like many film noir classics, this down-and-dirty Russian drama takes place in a closed system that traps both victim and victimizer.

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James Kendrick

Q Network Film Desk

Apr 28, 2016

3.5/4

suffused with a heavy sense of fatalism, and even though we feel that nothing will turn out well, it remains tremendously engaging until the final frames

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Tom Clift

Movie Mezzanine

Feb 4, 2014

B-

If the film can be said to deal in shades of morality at all, those shades are very, very dark grey.

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Dec 31, 2013

Interesting character and system study. It's a story with all the moral complications that keep you glued.

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Denis Shvedov

Sergey Sobolev

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Pavel Kroshunov - Pasha

Irina Nizina

Irina Gutorova

Ilya Isayev

Anatoly Merkulov

Boris Nevzorov

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Synopsis

A high-ranking Russian police officer accidentally runs over and kills a child, then tries to cover up the crime.

Director: Yuriy Bykov
Producer: Kira Saksaganskaya, Alexei Uchitel
Screenwriter: Yuriy Bykov
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Original Language: Russian
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 18, 2017
Runtime: 1h 39m

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