Gruz 200 (2007)

Director:

Aleksey Balabanov

Writer:

Aleksey Balabanov (writer)

Release Date:

14 June 2007 (Russia)

Genre:

Drama | Thriller

Plot:

A young woman is taken hostage by a police officer and subsequently abused by the lawman gone mad. |

Plot Keywords:

Female Nudity | Rape | Soviet Afghanistan War | Kidnapping | Murder

Awards:

2 wins & 2 nominations

Cast

Agniya Kuznetsova	...	Angelika
Aleksei Poluyan	...	Captain Zhurov
Leonid Gromov	...	Artem, Professor of Scientific Atheism
Aleksey Serebryakov	...	Aleksey
Leonid Bichevin	...	Valera
Natalya Akimova	...	Antonina, Aleksey's Wife
Yuri Stepanov	...	Mikhail, Colonel
Mikhail Skryabin	...	Sunka
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Sergei Aleksandrov
Valentina Andryukova
Konstantin Balakirev
Aleksandr Bashirov	...	Skinny Alcoholic
Alyona Falaleyeva
Yuliya Glazunova
Dmitri Karpov
Marina Korolkova
Dmitry Kubasov
Igor Malukhin
Lyalya Miropolskaya
Andrei Mokeyev
Aleksandr Mosin
Anzhelika Nevolina
Mariya Nikiforova
Ilya Plyatskovsky
Irina Rakshina
Mikhail Sokolov
Aleksandr Ustinov
Lyudmila Yegorova
Pavel Yulku

Also Known As:

Cargo 200 (International: English title) (USA) (new title)
Груз 200 (Russia)
Freight 200 (International: English title)

Runtime:

89 min

Country:

Russia

Language:

Russian

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Hong Kong:III | Singapore:M18 | New Zealand:R18 | Italy:VM14

Company:

Kinokompaniya CTB

Trivia:

Aleksey Balabanov's previous collaborators Sergei Makovetsky, Yevgeni Mironov and Kirill Pirogov all refused to star in the film.

Darkness about darkness

As a great fan of Aleksey Balabanov movies I probably expected too much from this film and was rather disappointed thereafter. The greatest problem that this movie faces is the lack of the feature film plot. When made in dark style film should use dynamic plot to make up for absence of light as it is effective plot balance. Otherwise it becomes dull, which is the case with this movie. Gruz 200 is following the bitter and creepy faith of the young woman in the last decade of USSR existence. Literally following, because camera goes after her many times disregarding the development of other actions. What film shows that happened to her can be put in just two sentences. Film needs much more than that, otherwise we could go to Somalia, take our camera, find the place of greatest atrocities and shoot the person that was the greatest subject of somebody's tyranny and sadism. Pity for all the film efforts, especially brilliant acting and fantastic camera, could have been better, if the plot axis had been developed more carefully.