Boris Novikov Movies
- 1990
In the new Russia, everyone is seeking "hard" currency -- that is to say, cash in a form that is reliably worth something, instead of rubles which cannot easily be used overseas. In this film, a pimp who is reputed to have a large supply of that kind of money gets kidnapped. However, in this action movie, more than one underworld group wants that cash, so plots and counterplots meet up with betrayals and untrustworthy alliances while the pimp, no good guy himself, seeks his freedom. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Andrei Sokolov, Igor Volkov, (more)
- 1979
In this stylish reworking of Robert Louis Stevenson's The Suicide Club, the Russian filmmakers stripped the book down to its essence while also devising comic subplots that are not in the original work. Prince Florizel (Oleg Dal), a ruler of some small fictional Middle-European country, finds his stay in London extremely boring. Every night he and his buddy Colonel Geraldine (Igor Dmitriev) go out looking for some adventures and excitement. One night they find themselves under the spell of a suicidal painter who leads them to The Suicide Club, run by the shadowy 'Chairman' (Donatas Banionis). The rules of the Suicide Club are simple: the members, all well-bred citizens with a penchant for death, decide the murderer and victim from a draw of the cards. The Chairman quickly and ruthlessly dispatches with those who do not want to abide by the rules and soon the prince finds himself sucked into real danger. ~ All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Oleg Dal, Donatas Banionis, (more)
