''High Security Vacation'' () is a 2009 Russian
adventure comedy film
The adventure film is a broad genre of film. Some early genre studies found it no different than the Western film or argued that adventure could encompass all Hollywood genres. Commonality was found among historians Brian Taves and Ian Cameron in ...
directed by Igor Zaytsev.
Plot
Viktor Sumarokov – experienced thief-recidivist nicknamed Sumrak is a person of authority to all prisoners. Yevgeny Koltsov is a former
Ministry of Internal Affairs
An interior ministry or ministry of the interior (also called ministry of home affairs or ministry of internal affairs) is a government department that is responsible for domestic policy, public security and law enforcement.
In some states, the i ...
employee who is a well-deserved hero for courageous fighting in
Chechnya
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. As a result of carelessness, he accidentally hurts a
venal
Venality is a vice associated with being bribeable or willing to sell one's services or power, especially when people are intended to act in a decent way instead. In its most recognizable form, venality causes people to lie and steal for their ow ...
colleague. When the former lawman becomes imprisoned, chief of the penitentiary, lieutenant colonel UFSIN Vyshkin comes to Sumrak with a request to protect Koltsov from the threats of prisoners.
The ringleader's closest aide learns that he wants to protect Koltsov (since the higher authorities have arrived for a holiday arranged on the premises, and problems connected with the death of the prisoner-militiaman would be detrimental) and using the promise of an early release he persuades another inmate authority, Shaman, to start a commotion and remove Koltsov with the goal being to undermine Vyshkin. A fight begins in which Koltsov gets wounded and he is taken to the hospital together with wounded Sumarokov. Having recovered himself in the hospital, Koltsov realizes that he can not survive in the zone until Shaman retreats. Then he asks his combat friend, commander of the special forces of the Federal Penitentiary Service Sergey Gagarin, to help him escape from the hospital. In the process of suppressing the riot in the zone, Sumarokov is wounded by special forces. Koltsov trusts Sumrak and takes him along.
Gagarin hides the runaway convicts in a
pioneer camp by the name of "Shipboy" where there is a shortage of male leaders. Now they call themselves Victor Sergeevich Romashkin and Yevgeny Dmitrievich Ubegaev. Children, honoring the pioneer traditions, mock their superiors in whichever way they can. However in attempts to make their squad the best and win a trip to St. Petersburg, the former convicts discover qualities in themselves which they never suspected before ...
Cast
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Sergey Bezrukov
Sergey Vitalyevich Bezrukov (; born 18 October 1973) is a Soviet and Russian film and stage actor, singer, People's Artist of Russia, the laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation. He currently works at Tabakov Studio (the theatre of ...
as Viktor 'Sumrak' Sumarokov
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Dmitri Dyuzhev
Dmitri Petrovich Dyuzhev (; born July 9, 1978) is a Russian film and stage actor and singer.
Early life
Was born on July 9, 1978, in Astrakhan, in the family of actor Petr Dyuzhev and Ludmila Dyuzheva. In 1995 he graduated the "School of Gifte ...
as Evgeni Koltsov
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Alyona Babenko
Alyona Olegovna Babenko (; ; born March 31, 1972) is a Russian film and theater actress, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (2013).
Biography
Elena Baranova, known professionally as Alyona Babenko was born in Kemerovo, Russian SFSR, Soviet ...
as Tatyana Panteleeva
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as Nikolai Vyshkin
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Lyudmila Polyakova
Lyudmila Petrovna Polyakova (; born January 28, 1939, Moscow) is a Soviet and Russian actress; she is a People's Artist of Russia (1999).
Biography
She graduated in 1964 from the Mikhail Shchepkin Higher Theatre School (course of Viktor Korshu ...
as Zinaida Obraztsova
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Aleksey Kravchenko as Sergey Gagarin
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Sabina Akhmedova as Lena Bichkina
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Roman Madyanov as Klyk
Reception
The film received positive reviews.
References
External links
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2009 films
2000s adventure comedy films
Russian adventure comedy films
2000s Russian films
2000s Russian-language films
Films about summer camps
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