The Outskirts (1998 film)

Russian farmer Filipp Safronov (Yuri Dubrovin) is dispossessed of his land by a shadowy group of government officials who hand it over to a powerful oil company. So Filipp rounds up some of his angriest and most violent friends and hits the road, planning to figure out exactly who is in control and then exact revenge. They track down corrupt bureaucrats one by one and torture them until they reveal who gave them their orders, following the trail of rapacious capitalism all the way to Moscow.

The Outskirts (Russian: , meaning Outskirts), also known by the transliterated Russian title Okraina, is a 1998 Russian film starring Yuri Dubrovin, Nikolay Olyalin, Alexey Pushkin, and Alexey Vanin. Loosely based on Boris Barnets 1933 film Outskirts, it was directed and written by Pyotr Lutsik.

Set on the Russian steppes and filmed in black-and-white, it is the story of a group of peasants seeking revenge against the oil company that bought the collective farm from beneath their feet and the return of their land. During the entire film, it does not stop snowing once. As the peasants make their way across the frozen tundra toward the city that houses oil company headquarters, they take vengeance against a series of former Communist bureaucrats who connived with oil company executives. Except for the youth Kolya that they have drafted into their crusade against the protestations of his babushka-wearing mother, they are all grizzled veterans of WWII.