Paragraph 78

Paragraph 78
	Film poster
Directed by	Mikhail Khleborodov
Produced by	Yusup Bahshiev
Written by	Mikhail Khleborodov (screenplay); Ivan Okhlobystin (novel)
Starring	Gosha Kutsenko; Vladimir Vdovichenko; Anastasia Slanevskaya
Music by	Tobias Enhus
Cinematography	Sergey Kozlov
Distributed by	MB Productions; Central Partnership
Release date	Part I:; February 22, 2007; Part II:; March 29, 2007;
Running time	95 minutes (part I); 90 minutes (part II)
Country	Russia
Language	Russian

Paragraph 78 (Russian: Параграф 78; also stylized as: § 78) is a Russian film by Mikhail Khleborodov released in 2007. The film was split into two parts Paragraph 78, Punkt 1 released on February 22, 2007, and Paragraph 78, Punkt 2 released on March 29, 2007. The screenplay was based on a 1995 story by Ivan Okhlobystin. Andrey Lazarchuk, the Russian writer of the modern turborealism literature style, wrote a novel based on this film (February 2007).

Plot

Future: soft drugs are legalized, Bowling is Olympic sport and countries such as the Asian Union and the United Pan-American States have appeared. An assault group under the command of Gudvin (Gosha Kutsenko) breaks apart because of his conflict with Skif (Vladimir Vdovichenkov).

Five years later Lisa (Anastasiya Slanevskaya) has left Skif and is married to Gudvin. Russia, the Asian Union and The United Pan-American States have signed a disarmament treaty, but keep a close watch one another.

A state of emergency is declared at one of Russia's secret and, per international treaties, prohibited laboratories on an island in the Arctic Ocean, causing an emergency beacon to begin broadcasting, creating the risk of discovery by the other nations. To prevent this from happening Gudvin assembles his former group. By that time Spam (Anatoli Belyj) is jailed, Luba (Stanislav Duzhnikov) works in that same prison as a warden, Festival (Grigori Siyatvinda) is engaged in commerce of banned drugs (lysergic acid), Pai (Azis Beyshinaliev) works in a casino, and Skif ruins himself with drink.

Together they depart to that island to penetrate the base and stop the emergency beacon.

Cast

Gosha Kutsenko as Gudvin
Vladimir Vdovichenkov as Skif
Grigory Siyatvinda as Festival
Anastasiya Slanevskaya as Lisa
Stanislav Duzhnikov as Luba
Azis Beyshinaliev as Pai
Anatoli Belyj as Spam
Yusup Bakshiyev as Doktor
Mikhail Yefremov as Prison commander

Critics

The film was heavily criticised for a strong resemblance to a number of films, including Resident Evil, Doom, Phantom Force, Dragon Fighter and Aliens.
The film was heavily packed by product placement as the recent Russian films Night Watch and Day Watch. This includes Russian Channel One, Fan chips, Men's Health magazine, Pikador ketchup, Mail.ru service, Radio Maximum, Golden barrel beer, Grand Prix vodka, Wrigley's Spearmint, Qtek S110, Creative player, Panasonic notebook, etc.
Some Russians were critical of the film because it was broken up into two parts and ended on a cliffhanger - a practice previously unusual in the Russian film industry.

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gollark: They rely on fancy internal magic, and have bad properties like needing to be run unconditionally and in the same order each time.

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gollark: <@509984943833874432> Hooks are EVIL. EVIL.

gollark: I like the Elm *architecture*, just not *much of Elm*.

External links

Official website
Paragraph 78 at AllMovie
Paragraph 78, Punkt 1 on IMDb
Paragraph 78, Punkt 2 on IMDb
Baseline StudioSystems (2009-02-25). "Paragraf 78, Punkt 1". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-02-25.

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