Newsmakers

May 7, 2009

1h 47m

★ 5.0

Overview

A gang of crooks robbing cash collectors, run into a police surveillance team and the inadequate police response results in a gunfight. A TV crew on assignment in the area happens to capture this humiliation on camera, and this example of police incompetence is soon the lead story in every news bulletin. Public confidence in law and order now suffers irreparable harm. The head of the Moscow force welcomes a public search-and-destroy operation against these thugs, the brainchild of Katya, his PR director. She proposes that the capture of this dangerous gang be transformed into a live TV show of a kind never seen before. At this point she cannot know that the gang leader's life-and-death struggle with the police is destined to lead to a media duel. Besieged in a huge apartment block, the crooks hold hostage a father and his son and daughter. A massive special forces rescue operation is mounted but fails miserably.

Genres

Action

Thriller

Crime

Drama

Production Companies

Illusion Film

Kino Bez Granits

Film i Väst

Newsmakers Trailers

Cast

Smirnov

Andrey Merzlikin

Herman

Yevgeni Tsyganov

Katya

Masha Mashkova

Killer

Sergey Garmash

Kley

Maksim Konovalov

Orda

Aleksey Frandetti

Kolyan

Pavel Klimov

Kon

Sergey Vesnin

Valery

Artyom Semakin

Sanya

Viktor Chepelov

Hamlet

David Stepanyan

Mikhalych

Oleg Chernigov

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6.1

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6.4

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6.1

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7.2

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6.4

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6.6

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6.2

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6.1

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