Newsmakers

Story

Synopsis

A gang of crooks robbing cash collectors, run into a police surveillance team and the inadequate police response results in a gunfight. A TV crew on assignment in the area happens to capture this humiliation on camera, and this example of police incompetence is soon the lead story in every news bulletin. Public confidence in law and order now suffers irreparable harm. The head of the Moscow force welcomes a public search-and-destroy operation against these thugs, the brainchild of Katya, his PR director. She proposes that the capture of this dangerous gang be transformed into a live TV show of a kind never seen before. At this point she cannot know that the gang leader's life-and-death struggle with the police is destined to lead to a media duel. Besieged in a huge apartment block, the crooks hold hostage a father and his son and daughter. A massive special forces rescue operation is mounted but fails miserably.

Director

Anders Banke

Writers

Johnnie To, Alexandr Lungin, Chan Hing-Kai

Language

Russian

Country

Russia, Sweden

Release date

7 May 2009

Budget

$4,000,000

Ensemble

Cast

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  Andrey Merzlikin

  Smirnov

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  Evgeny Tsyganov

  Herman

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  Masha Mashkova

  Katya

• 

  Sergey Garmash

  Killer

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  Maksim Konovalov

  Kley

• 

  Aleksey Frandetti

  Orda

• 

  Pavel Klimov

  Kolyan

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  Sergey Vesnin

  Kon

• 

  Artyom Semakin

  Valery

• Viktor Chepelov

  Sanya

• David Stepanyan

  Hamlet

• Oleg Chernigov

  Mikhalych