A very typical post-Soviet era storyline. A bunch of vagabonds lured an innocent teenage girl to their apartment, offered her a drink, intimidated, then gang raped her. Local cops are incapable to undertake an adequate actions against the scoundrels - prevented by the superior chief of the local police, who is the dad of one of the scumbags. The case is closed. The girl's granddad tired of an endless circumlocution decides to take revenge in his own hands.
Acting
Ulyanov's silent simmer — every glance weighs a ton.
Direction
Govorukhin's unflinching eye, no catharsis offered.
Writing
Dialogue sparse as the moral landscape it depicts.
Director
Stanislav Govorukhin
Mikhail Ulyanov
Ivan Afonin
Anna Sinyakina
Katya Afonina
Aleksandr Porokhovshchikov
Nikolay Pashutin, police colonel, Vadim's father
Vladislav Galkin
Alexey Podberyozkin, local policeman
Irina Rozanova
Olga Afonina, Katya's mother
Ilya Drevnov
Vadim Pashutin
Aleksey Makarov
Boris Chukhanov
Marat Basharov
Igor Zvorygin
Sergey Garmash
Koshaev, police captain
Georgi Martirosyan
district attorney, prosecutor
Sergey Aprelsky
gun dealer
Aleksei Shevchenkov
gun dealer
Oleg Komarov
market's gun dealer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Named after a Soviet civil defense sports organization — bitter irony for a film about institutional failure.
Govorukhin adapted this from a real 1996 case where a grandfather similarly avenged his granddaughter; the film's release sparked national debate about vigilante justice in Yeltsin-era Russia.
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