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Genres:
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Crime /
Drama /
Mystery /
Thriller
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Director:
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David Cronenberg
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Actors:
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Tatiana Maslany,
Jerzy Skolimowski,
Raza Jaffrey,
Mina E. Mina,
Aleksander Mikic,
Sarah-Jeanne Labrosse,
Doña Croll,
Josef Altin,
Lalita Ahmed,
Badi Uzzaman,
Naomi Watts,
Sinéad Cusack,
Viggo Mortensen,
Vincent Cassel,
Armin Mueller-Stahl
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Duration:
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101 min.
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Rating:
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(7.8/10)166.5
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Plot Summary:
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In London, the Russian parturient teenager Tatiana arrives bleeding in a hospital, and the doctors save her child only. The Russian grandchild accoucheuse Anna Khitrova finds Tatiana's engagement book written in Russian language in her personal property and unfaltering to her family to fire the infant, she brings the chronicle where it hurts and question her uncle Stepan to transfer the describe. Stepan refuses, but Anna finds a membership card of a restaurant owned by the Russian Semyon lining the engagement book and she visits the old the human race taxing to windfall a lead to contact Tat... iana's forefathers. When she mentions the being of the diary, Semyon immediately offers to translate the describe. Be that as it may, Stepan translates influence of the date-book and Anna discovers that Semyon and his sick son Kirill had raped Tatiana when she was fourteen years old and forced her to persuade as call-girl in a brothel of their own. Remote, Semyon is the unsafe boss of the Russian mafia "Vory v Zakone", jeopardizing the safety of Anna and her offspring. Interval, Semyon's driver Nikolai Luzhin gets fixed to Kirill and Semyon, climbing positions in the criminal categorization, but he helps Anna, her family and the baby.
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At the time of writing this has a 75% rating!?!? It is utterly, utterly terrible. Please, do not waste your time with this predictable yarn of a film.
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