Lichnyy nomer (2004)

User Rating:

5.0/10   

Director:

Evgeny Lavrentiev

Writers:

Evgeny Lavrentiev (writer)
Yuri Sagaidak (writer)

Release Date:

9 December 2004 (Russia)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Crime | Thriller

Plot:

A terrorist organization know as "Ansar Allah" is preparing to turn the city of Rome into a City of Dead...

Plot Keywords:

Rome Italy | Plutonium | Murder | Swimming Pool | Jeep

Cast

Aleksei Makarov	...	Major Aleksei Smolin
Louise Lombard	...	Catherine Stone
Vyacheslav Razbegayev	...	Umar Tamiev
Yegor Pozenko	...	Saulyus Boykis (as Yegor Pazenko)
Yuriy Tsurilo	...	General Karpov
Viktor Verzhbitskiy	...	Pokrovskiy
Ramil Sabitov	...	Khasan
John Amos	...	Admiral Melory
Mariya Golubkina	...	Tatyana
Orso Maria Guerrini	...	Italian Prime Minister
Maria Semkina	...	Masha
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Igor Aldonin	...	Journalist at airport
Dave Bass	...	Press Conference Moderator
Yegor Blokhin	...	NATO HQs officer
James Derrick	...	NATO expert
Marat Gudiyev	...	Shakhid (as Marad Gudiev)
Evgeniy Kochetkov	...	Gymnast (as Evgeny Kochetkov)
Denis Konstantinov	...	Anti-terrorist HQs officer
Svetlana Kopylova	...	School Teacher
Vladimir Kostin	...	Belarussian air traffic controller
Iya Lang	...	Journalist in press-center
Sergei Lavrentyev	...	Journalist at airport (as Sergey Lavrentiev)
Viktor Manaev	...	Belarussian air traffic controller
Yuri Medvedev	...	Journalist in press-center
Ruslan Naurbiyev	...	Aslan (as Ruslan Naurbiev)
Igor Petrov	...	NATO HQs officer
Alina Polichuk	...	Girl in the circus
Pavel Remezov	...	Colonel
Mikhail Semin	...	Ira's bodyguard
Boris Shcherbakov	...	Officer at the Space communications center
Anastasiya Shiladzhyan	...	Hostage
Gennadi Solovyov	...	Driver Vanya (as Gennady Soloviev)
Hossein Taheri	...	Emissary
Valentin Varetsky	...	General of the Office of Public Prosecutor
Vernon R. Wheeler	...	Cameraman
Magomed Zurabov	...	Mansur

Also Known As:

Личный номер (Russia)
Countdown (International: English title)

Country:

Russia

Language:

English | Russian

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Finland:K-15 | South Korea:15

Filming Locations:

Ivanovo airport, Ivanovo, Ivanovskaya Oblast, Russia

Company:

Film Master

Goofs:

Crew or equipment visible: At the very end, when the Arab terrorists drives past the cobra in the dessert, three men are visible in the reflection of the black car as they pass. One of them is leaning forward and operating the camera.

Bad to funny

If the intention was to create a parody on hostage taking movies, the authors succeeded brilliantly. I was first really annoyed at being made fun of, but in the end had a great laugh throughout. I would recommend anybody to see the film in English translation because it gets even funnier. Nothing is real - characters, motivation of their actions, acting, make-up, dialogs, stage setting, proprieties, nothing. Absolutely hilarious!

The one problem seems to be the fact that the film has too clear a political agenda and passes some very childish messages: FSB has absolute authority; tycoons are the villains (Pokrovskiy > Berezovskiy), not all Chechens are bad, only manipulated by the villains etc. Soviet-style propagandist cinema in a new era, just of really sub-standard quality.