Zhest

Mar 23 2006 N/A 1h 50m
Crime, Horror, Thriller

Marina (Alyona Babenko) is a journalist contemplating retiring, bored of writing stories of serial killers and murders that are front page news one day, and then are quickly forgotten the next. At a large house a lawyer is holed up, police are in the front garden, snipers on the roof and the lawyer asks for Marina. She’s a little surprised by this as she and the lawyer have only crossed paths a few times during her career, but agrees to go to the lawyers house. Arriving at the house she’s confronted by the large police presence, she’s given a quick debrief of the situation and requested not to go into the house. She declines and enters the house. Just inside the front door is the lawyers wife, she tell Marina that he’s lost it and locked the children in their rooms and that he’s going to kill them all.

Plot

Journalist Marina after an unpleasant professional incident decides to leave journalism. But her editor agrees to this only if Marina makes her last report on a maniac teacher who is in a psychiatric hospital. But almost immediately after the arrival of Marina and her acquaintance with the head doctor, the maniac manages to escape. The search entrusts the investigator Pavel, Marina manages to join him. After a series of operational-search measures, the heroes find themselves in a huge, abandoned country-house village in the vicinity of the city of Azotstal. A mobile phone does not work in this territory, a criminal code does not work, and local residents live according to their own laws.

Written by

Yusup Bakhshiev, Konstantin Murzenko, Denis Neymand

Directed by

Denis Neymand

Cast

Alyona Babenko, Mikhail Efremov, Vyacheslav Razbegaev

Crew

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Production Countries

Russia

Production Companies

Arnold and Gregor Production

Languages

Awards

N/A

Trailers
????? / Trash / 2006 / Russian trailer / ??????? ??????? / HD
Scores
# of Votes
854
Average Rating
5.1 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
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