Anatoliy Barchuk Movies

Georgian director Aleko Tsabadze's sweeping thriller The Russian Triangle commences in 1994 Chechnya with the homicide of two individuals - a pregnant woman and a university professor's daughter. The professor grows so distraught and is so driven around the bend by this act of filicide that he converts to militant Islam and swears vengeance against the responsible parties, wherever and however he might go about pinpointing them. The story then cuts to an unnamed Russian metropolis with a substantial underground mafia - a city reeling from a series of unsolved murders. Nikolai - a law student completing his education with an apprenticeship to the Russian police department - sets out to solve the serial murders, allegedly traceable to a blind killer; his quest causes him to stumble onto a clique of disgruntled citizens, irate over the Chechnyan War, who may or may not have direct ties to the homicides. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide