Gladiator for Rent

Gladiator for Rent

1993 · 87 min · ★ 9.0 · Mystery, Action, Crime

The owner of the private detective agency Ilya Mirsky receives a tempting offer from the wife of media mogul Eva Lukachyova - he should not allow the leak of compromising information, which would deprive Eva of her multimillion-dollar inheritance. Deciding to take the case, Ilya could have hardly imagined that he would have to face a whole series of sophisticated murder, and that the result would be in the danger of his own life.

Directed by Dmitriy Zaytsev · Written by Alexander Zaytsev

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