The Major (film)
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Director Yury Bykov Music director Yury Bykov Duration Country Russia | 7/10 IMDb Genre Action, Crime, Drama Screenplay Yury Bykov Writer Yuriy Bykov | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date May 2013 (2013-05) (Cannes)8 August 2013 (2013-08-08) (Russia) Cast Denis Shvedov (Sergey Sobolev), Irina Nizina (Irina Gutorova), Ilya Isaev (Anatoly Merkulov), Yury Bykov (Pavel Kroshunov - Pasha), (Aleksey Pavlovich Pankratov), Kirill Poluhin (Burlakov)Similar movies Movies about Russia, Action movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Major (Russian: Майор, translit. Mayor) is a 2013 Russian action film written, directed and starring Yuri Bykov. It was first screened as part of the International Critics' Week at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival.
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The film tells of the staff of the Russian police, who fall in difficult life situations and use of official position and procedures to get out of them.
Plot
Police Major Sergei Sobolev's wife gives birth. Future father rushes to the hospital, but then his car at full speed throws a boy who was crossing the road at a pedestrian crossing, causes his death. The only witnesses is his mother, Irina Gutorova.
The Major decides to avoid responsibility for a crime and call his colleagues to the incident scene. His colleague Pavel Korshunov quickly eliminate the evidence that proves the guilt of Sobolev. Despite the fact that the mother of the deceased seven-year-old boy knows the true culprit of the accident, the Chief of District police forced her to give false testimony in favor of Major Sobolev.
Sobolev suddenly decides to confess everything and to be punished, but other police officers do not like it: after all, covering the major, they cover themselves, covering up the traces of their own abuse, in this modernize but still yet corrupted Police force.
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