To Kill the Scorpion

Feb 15, 1991

1h 7m

★ 0.0

Overview

On a certain remote island within the country, there is a prison zone where inmates are forced to mine ore. In one of the island’s caves, dinosaur bones are discovered. A sophisticated lady from the capital is invited to study the find, and a brave local guard, Sergeant A. Peskov, is assigned to escort her. Meanwhile, a ruthless crime boss known by the fearsome nickname "Scorpion," along with a group of hardened convicts, is secretly plotting an escape from the zone...

Genres

Action

Drama

War

Production Companies

Otechestvo

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Cast

Сержант

Aleksandr Peskov

Научный сотрудник

Elena Malikova

Зэк, Скорпион

Vladimir Niskov

Зэк

Anatoliy Obukhov

Зэк

Oleg Babitsky

Гробокопатель

Vadim Uryupin

Зэк

Stanislav Korolyov

Pavel Poymalov

Stanislav Gagarin

Sergey Golovetsky

Yury Martynov

Lev Guzhnovskiy

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