The Rifleman of the Voroshilov Regiment

The Rifleman of the Voroshilov Regiment

1999 · 95 min · ★ 7.0 · Drama, Action, Crime

A very typical post-Soviet era storyline. A bunch of vagabonds lured an innocent teenage girl to their apartment, offered her a drink, intimidated, then gang raped her. Local cops are incapable to undertake an adequate actions against the scoundrels - prevented by the superior chief of the local police, who is the dad of one of the scumbags. The case is closed. The girl's granddad tired of an endless circumlocution decides to take revenge in his own hands.

Directed by Stanislav Govorukhin · Written by Stanislav Govorukhin

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Mikhail Ulyanov Ivan Afonin
Anna Sinyakina Katya Afonina
Aleksandr Porokhovshchikov Nikolay Pashutin, police colonel, Vadim's father
Vladislav Galkin Alexey Podberyozkin, local policeman
Irina Rozanova Olga Afonina, Katya's mother
Ilya Drevnov Vadim Pashutin
Aleksey Makarov Boris Chukhanov
Marat Basharov Igor Zvorygin
Sergey Garmash Koshaev, police captain
Georgi Martirosyan district attorney, prosecutor
Karen Muradyan David
Sergey Aprelsky gun dealer

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