The Initiated

Feb 17, 1990

2h 0m

★ 4.6

Overview

Volodya, who lives with his mother in the apartment on the outskirts of St. Petersburg, gets a pre-revolutionary book on magic rituals of Africa. Reading it, Vladimir realizes that he became an owner the supernatural gift – he can kill people by his own will.

Genres

Mystery

Drama

Production Companies

Lenfilm

Trinity Bridge Studio

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Cast

Volodya

Gor Oganisyan

Мать

Lyubov Polishchuk

Frolov

Aleksandr Trofimov

Vera

Yelena Bragina

Леха

Sergey Makovetskiy

Немой

Vladimir Simonov

Николай

Gabriel Vorobyov

Света

Olga Samoshina

Alisa Fomina

Young Volodya

David Oganisyan

Elena Drapeko

Petya

Vladimir Yurev

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