''The Russian Triangle'' ( ka, რუსული სამკუთხედი ''Rusuli samkudhedi''; russian: Русский треугольник) is a 2007 Russian-language Georgian
thriller film
Thriller film, also known as suspense film or suspense thriller, is a broad film genre that evokes excitement and suspense in the audience. The suspense element found in most films' plots is particularly exploited by the filmmaker in this genre. ...
directed by
Aleko Tsabadze. It was Georgia's submission to the
80th Academy Awards
The 80th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2007. The award ceremony took place on February 24, 2008, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles. During t ...
for the
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
The Academy Award for Best International Feature Film (known as Best Foreign Language Film prior to 2020) is one of the Academy Awards handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS). It is given to a ...
, but was not accepted as a nominee.
It was also entered into the
29th Moscow International Film Festival
The 29th Moscow International Film Festival was held from 21 to 30 June 2007. The Golden George was awarded to the Russian film '' Travelling with Pets'' directed by Vera Storozheva.
Jury
* Fred Schepisi (Australia – Chairman of the Jury)
* A ...
where it won the Special Jury Prize.
Plot
Contemporary Russia. The main characters of the film are victims of the recent war who are lost in a city inhabited by millions. In this megalopolis a series of murders occurs. The investigation gradually leads law student Kolya Vorontsov to the track of the sniper-killer. This is Viktor Alyoshin, a former teacher of Russian language and literature in the Chechen school. Having lost his pregnant Chechen wife during the bombing of Grozny, he adopts Islam and goes to the Chechen fighters ... Vorontsov feels that Aleshin's fate is somehow connected with the Maltsev brothers - Denis and Lev, miraculously surviving after the brutal torture and Chechen captivity.
What do these people have in common? And why does the tragedy of 10 years ago completely change the life of Kolya Vorontsov who spent all these years in a city far from military operations? This war demands more and more victims.
Cast
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Artyom Tkachenko
Artyom Valeryevich Tkachenko (russian: Артём Валерьевич Ткаченко; born April 30, 1982) is a Russian film and theater actor.
Biography
He engaged in the theater studio under the direction of Boris Beinenson. After school h ...
as Kolya Vorontsov
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Konstantin Khabenskiy
Konstantin Yurievich Khabensky, PAR (russian: link=no, Константин Юрьевич Хабенский; born 11 January 1972) is a Russian actor of stage and film, director and philanthropist.
From 1997 he was part of the Saint Petersbur ...
as Denis Maltsev
* Pyotr Mironov as Sniper
* Mikhaïl Jonine as Lev Maltsev
* Oleg Primogenov as Redhead
* Ostap Stupka as Lieutenant Shakalsky
* Oleg Dolin as Philip
* Anatoli Barchuk as Captain Ovcharov
* Ramil Sabitov as Mussa
* Inna Belikova as Polina
See also
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Cinema of Georgia
The cinema of Georgia has been noted for its cinematography in Europe. Italian film director Federico Fellini was an admirer of the Georgian film: "Georgian film is a completely unique phenomenon, vivid, philosophically inspiring, very wise ...
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References
External links
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2007 films
Thriller films from Georgia (country)
2007 thriller films
2000s Russian-language films
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