Checkpoint

Aug 15, 1998

1h 25m

★ 5.7

Overview

A group Russian soldiers is send to an outpost to guard the area. They pass the day patroulling the area, while being shot at from the forest. They never know if the civillions are hostile or friendly to them.

Genres

War

Drama

Production Companies

Obshchestvennoe Rossiyskoe Televidenie

CTB Film Company

Checkpoint Trailers

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Cast

General

Aleksei Buldakov

Iliych

Andrey Krasko

"Кайф"

Denis Kirillov

Bones

Roman Romantsov

Professor

Kirill Ulyanov

Margarita Bychkova

Ash

Ivan Kuzmin

Lieutenant Borya

Sergei Guslinsky

Fingers

Egor Tomoshevskiy

Pisser

Yuri Grigoriev

Boeing

Aleksandr Ivanov

Betective

Zoya Buryak

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