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PRODUCTION TEAM
Director :
Alexei Balabanov
Script :
Alexei Balabanov
Photography :
Sergei Astakhov
Editor :
Marina Lipartia
Cast :
Alexei Chadov, Ian Kelly, Ingeborga Dapkunaite, Sergei Bodrov, Euclid Kurdzidis, Georgi Gurgulia
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THE WAR
Overshadowed by events in the Middle East and Afghanistan, the war in Chechnya goes on and on, the Chechens taking hostages and detonating bombs in southern Russia and the Russian army repressing the rebellion with scorched earth brutality. In Alexei Balabanov's controversial slice-of-war, two Russian soldiers and two touring British actors are taken captive by the Chechen rebels. John, one of the two young Britons, is sent home to fetch �4 million as ransom for his fianc�e. Back in England, the authorities don't want to hear anything about it, but the actor finally manages to find the required sum and he and a fellow ex-hostage Vanya revisit Chechnya in a blaze of disorganized, vicious revenge. The young Briton turns out to be dangerously naive about war and he isn't above betraying Vanya to achieve his own ends.
Alexei Balabanov
Born in Sverdlovsk, Russia in 1959, Alexei Balabanov earned his diploma from the Foreign Languages College in Gorky before becoming an assistant director at the Sverdlovsk Film Studio. Later he trained as a screenwriter and director in Moscow and directed two short films before moving to St. Petersburg where he co-founded the STW Film Company with Sergei Selianov. In 1992 he made his feature debut with HAPPY DAYS, which won awards at several international festivals. He has since directed: THE CASTLE (1994), BROTHER (one of the big critical and commercial successes of the Russian cinema in 1997), OF FREAKS AND MEN (1998) and BROTHER 2 (2000), all of which were shown at the Montreal World Film Festival.
August 27, 2002 • 11:30:00 • IMP�RIAL • CI.27.2 •
August 27, 2002 • 21:30:00 • MAISONNEUVE • TM.27.2 •
August 28, 2002 • 16:30:00 • IMP�RIAL • CI.28.4 •
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