Zhmurki

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Dead Man's Bluff (2005) (Russian: Жмурки, Zhmurki) is a Molotov cocktail of gruesome carnage, eccentric characters, and off-beat humor. The movie casts a bracingly cynical eye on recent Eastern European history. Director Alexei Balabanov uses "uniformly ace" (Variety) cameo performances, by Russia's most prominent actors, to send up both the greed-is-good mentality of the newly democratized former Soviet Union and the self-conscious Quentin Tarantino/Guy Ritchie-style crime films of the 90's. This ferocious farce suggest that on the mean free-market streets of modern day Russia, the only real liberty is the freedom to kill.

The stars of the film include famous Russian actors such as Nikita Mikhalkov, Dmitrij Djuzhev, Aleksej Panin, Sergej Makovetskij, Igor Sukachev, Viktor Sukhorukov, and Renata Litvinova.