Paragraph 78
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| Directed by | Mikhail Khleborodov |
| Produced by | Yusup Bahshiev |
| Written by | Mikhail Khleborodov (screenplay), Ivan Okhlobystin (novel) |
| Starring | Gosha Kutsenko Vladimir Vdovichenko Anastasia Slanevskaya |
| Cinematography | Sergey Kozlov |
| Distributed by | MB Productions |
| Release date(s) | February 22, 2007 |
| Country | Russia |
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| Release date(s) | March 29, 2007 |
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Paragraph 78 (screen name - § 78) is a Russian film by Mikhail Khleborodov released in 2007. Film was split into two parts Paragraph 78, Punkt 1 released February 22, 2007 and Paragraph 78, Punkt 2 released March 29, 2007.
The screenplay was based on Ivan Ohlobystin novels (1995).
Andrey Lazarchuk, Russian writer of the modern turborealism literature style, wrote the novel based on this film (February 2007).
Tagline: Paragraph 78: The Die is Cast.
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[edit] Plot
Future: soft drugs legalized, countries such as Asian Union and Latin States of America appeared. An assault group under the command of Gudvin (Gosha Kutsenko) breaks apart because of his conflict with Skif (Vladimir Vdovichenkov).
Time slipped by. Five years later Lisa (Anastasiya Slanevskaya) divorced with Skif and married Gudvin. Russia, Asian Union and the Latin States watchs closely after each other in case of WMD production cessation.
A state of emergency declared at one of the secret laboratories of the Russian Ministry of Defense on one of the island in the Arctic Ocean causing emergency beacon started to operate. Now the other countries can possibly locate this base. To prevent this from happening Gudvin assembles his former group. By that time Spam (Anatoli Belyj) is jailed, Luba (Stanislav Duzhnikov) works in that prison as a warden, Festival (Grigori Siyatvinda) is engaged in commerce of banned drugs (lysergic acid), Pai (Azis Beyshinaliev) works in a casino, Skif ruins himself with drink.
Together they departs to that island to penetrate the military base...
[edit] Cast
- Gosha Kutsenko ... Gudvin
- Vladimir Vdovichenkov ... Skif
- Grigori Siyatvinda ... Festival
- Anastasiya Slanevskaya ... Lisa
- Stanislav Duzhnikov ... Luba
- Azis Beyshinaliev ... Pai
- Anatoli Belyj ... Spam
- Yusup Bakshiyev ... Doktor
- Mikhail Yefremov ... Prison commander
[edit] Critics
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- The film was heavily criticised for strong resemblance to a number of films, including Resident Evil, Doom, Phantom Force, Dragon Fighter, and Aliens.
- The film was heavily packed by product placement as the recent Russian films Night Watch and Day Watch. This includes Russian Channel One, Fan chips, Men's Health magazine, Pikador ketchup, Mail.ru service, Radio Maximum, Golden barrel beer, Grand Prix vodka, Wrigley's Spearmint, Qtek S110, Creative player, Panasonic notebook, etc.
- Some critics noted the biggest "trickery" of the audience in the history of Russian film industry because of a controversial breakup of the film into two parts in the plot culmination point.
