Law of Corruption (2005)
"Muzhskoy sezon. Barkhatnaya revolyutsiya" (original title)

A drug industry has gained a huge popularity in the United States and Eastern Europe. In response, FSB has been organizing underground operations to infiltrate the most notorious drug gangs... See full summary »

Director:

Oleg Stepchenko

Writers:

Aleksandr Karpov (screenplay), Oleg Stepchenko

Stars:

Aleksey Kravchenko, Aleksandr Karpov, Mikhail Gorevoy

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Aleksey Kravchenko	...	Vershinin
Aleksandr Karpov	...	Berdyaev
Mikhail Gorevoy	...	Clerk
Vasili Livanov	...	Shuvalov
Arnis Licitis	...	Killer
Roman Radov	...	Lipkin
Oleg Taktarov	...	Skala
Viktoriya Tolstoganova	...	Vershinin's Wife
Anna Churina	...	Girl with a Cell Phone
Aleksey Petrukhin	...	Suvorovtsev
Igor Kashintsev	...	Sedoy
Aleksandr Yakovlev	...	Sors
Igor Jijikine	...	Pike
Oskar Kuchera	...	Barman
Yuriy Kolokolnikov	...	Podsledstvenniy

Storyline

A drug industry has gained a huge popularity in the United States and Eastern Europe. In response, FSB has been organizing underground operations to infiltrate the most notorious drug gangs in that region. Meanwhile, a huge drug operation is being led by a mysterious crime group in Russia. Two special agents try to investigate, but one of them has his family taken hostages by the mob and is being blackmailed. All the suspicions lead to the international drug cartel led by an American crime boss and a former U.S. Special Forces member.

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Plot Keywords:

drugs | hostage | eastern europe | espionage | assassin | 

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Genres:

Action | Crime | Drama

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Details

Official Sites:

Official site Official site (English)

Country:

Russia

Language:

Russian German English

Release Date:

15 September 2005 (Russia)

Also Known As:

Velvet Revolution

Filming Locations:

California, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$7,000,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Rospofilm, Step by Step Film Production

Technical Specs

Runtime:

117 min 116 min (theatrical)

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

In Praque, they get new Passports so they can go back to Russia. In one Shot, you see the Personal Data Page of one of the Passports. By Name is written: Karel Gott. Karel Gott (=God in English) is a Czech folklore Singer, also called "golden voice of Prague".

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Connections

References The White Sun of the Desert (1970)

User Reviews

A lot of flashes with little sense

OK, it is a Russian propaganda movie, OK it was made with Russian state money to promote something. But why make it such a bad movie? Director who made this movie should make only clips on MTV. Because except flashes and style stolen from American movies this movie doesn't have anything of value. There is no character development, so you don't care about them. So this movie has very good advertising clips, but nothing besides them. There is no clear script, anything is told to you by main character "thoughts". Most modern Russian TV short series are much better and even old "Brat" and "Brat 2" (Brother and Brother-2) are much better.