Vyacheslav NIKIFOROV
Вячеслав НИКИФОРОВ
Viatcheslav NIKIFOROV
Russia, 2014, 50mn 
TV film
Palach
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Палач

 

 Le Bourreau

 Palach

 
Directed by : Vyacheslav NIKIFOROV (Вячеслав НИКИФОРОВ)
 
Cast
Andrey SMOLYAKOV (Андрей СМОЛЯКОВ)
Viktoria TOLSTOGANOVA (Виктория ТОЛСТОГАНОВА)
Yulia PERESILD (Юлия ПЕРЕСИЛЬД)
Marina ALEKSANDROVA (Марина АЛЕКСАНДРОВА)
Aleksey BARDUKOV (Алексей БАРДУКОВ)
Vadim ANDREEV (Вадим АНДРЕЕВ)
Mariya ANDREYEVA (Мария АНДРЕЕВА)
Aleksandr DROBITKO (Александр ДРОБИТЬКО)
Vitali KISHCHENKO (Виталий КИЩЕНКО)
Alena KONSTANTINOVA (Алена КОНСТАНТИНОВА)
Lyudmila POLIAKOVA (Людмила ПОЛЯКОВА)
Daniela STOYANOVICH (Даниэла СТОЯНОВИЧ)
Yuri TARASOV (Юрий ТАРАСОВ)
Vladimir YUMATOV (Владимир ЮМАТОВ)
Anatoli ZHURAVLYOV (Анатолий ЖУРАВЛЕВ)
 
Cinematography : Mikhail ISKANDAROV (Михаил ИСКАНДАРОВ)
Production design : Igor TOPILIN (Игорь ТОПИЛИН)
Music : Anton SCHWARTZ (Антон ШВАРЦ)
Produced by : Konstantin ERNST (Константин ЭРНСТ), Denis EVSTIGNEYEV (Денис ЕВСТИГНЕЕВ)
Production : «Студия Русский проект» / Studio "Projet russe"
Release date in Russia : 11/01/2015
 

Plot synopsis
The events take place in the Moscow area in 1965. At the heart of it is the story of the hunt for a torturer who, during the war, on the orders of the Germans, shot prisoners, partisans and civilians. It is ultimately the particular story of the civil war waged by a monster against her compatriots. At the time of the war, she was barely 20 years old but she had already carried out more than 1,500 executions. She would shoot her victims with a machine gun, hidden behind a child's mask of a rabbit. Then she would down a bottle of booze and the next day, she would reappear in public, without a mask, and lead an ordinary life, like other people... Hence the extreme difficulty, after the war, in unmasking this criminal. The case was entrusted to a chief inspector. And his suspicions fell on several women in turn...
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Golden Eagle awards, Moscow (Russia), 2016