http://russart.com/?mid=568 Russia, Fort Video, 2002, 111 min. Genre Action, Criminal, Thriller, Detective. Plot One of the most famous Russian blockbusters. It portrays a brutal war between obnoxious crime gangs and a one man vigilante, a former police officer. The movie is based on Daniil Koretsky's novel of the same name, which has sold five million copies in the countries of the former Soviet Union and has acquired cult status among readers of Russian pulp fiction. Like the novel, the film became the box office leader among Russian films in 2002. Former criminal investigator, Major Korenev, nicknamed Artful Fox, gets out of jail, where he spent many years after being betrayed by his corrupt colleagues, and settles scores with his old and new enemies. These enemies are so numerous that some viewers and critics found the film confusing and considered the 114 minutes allotted by the filmmaker for the enemies' annihilation somewhat excessive. The film uncovers the anatomy of the beginning of Russian economical boom in 1990th and many varieties of crime coming with it. Fox went to jail when the Soviet Union was still alive, but returns from prison to a new country, Russia, which the film portrays as a lawless post-industrial wasteland ruled by competing criminal gangs. Fox settles accounts with Shaman, the criminal boss who sent him to jail; kills Ape, a sadistic gang leader who kills and rapes randomly for art's sake; topples the city's major gangs; and reestablishes his version of the rule of law. The only criminal boss who survives the war among the major gangs is "Cross", whose ascetic and down to earth style helps him to unseat the kingpin "Father" modeled on Don Vito Corleone. Cast Gosha Kutsenko, Mikhail Ulyanov, Sergey Shakurov, Aleksandr Belyavsky, Ivan Bortnik, Evgeny Golubenko, Aleksandr Baluev, Evgeny Sidikhin, Viktor Sukhorukov, Mikhail Efremov, Viktorya Tolstoganova, Vyacheslav Razbegaev. Russia, Fort Video, 2002. Action, Criminal, Thriller, Detective. One of the most famous Russian blockbusters. It portrays a brutal war between obnoxious crime gangs and a one man vigilante, a former police officer. The movie is based on Daniil Koretsky's novel of the same name, which has sold five million copies in the countries of the former Soviet Union and has acquired cult status among readers of Russian pulp fiction. Like the novel, the film became the box office leader among Russian films in 2002. Former criminal investigator, Major Korenev, nicknamed Artful Fox, gets out of jail, where he spent many years after being betrayed by his corrupt colleagues, and settles scores with his old and new enemies. These enemies are so numerous that some viewers and critics found the film confusing and considered the 114 minutes allotted by the filmmaker for the enemies' annihilation somewhat excessive. The film uncovers the anatomy of the beginning of Russian economical boom in 1990th and many varieties of crime coming with it. Fox went to jail when the Soviet Union was still alive, but returns from prison to a new country, Russia, which the film portrays as a lawless post-industrial wasteland ruled by competing criminal gangs. Fox settles accounts with Shaman, the criminal boss who sent him to jail; kills Ape, a sadistic gang leader who kills and rapes randomly for art's sake; topples the city's major gangs; and reestablishes his version of the rule of law. The only criminal boss who survives the war among the major gangs is "Cross", whose ascetic and down to earth style helps him to unseat the kingpin "Father" modeled on Don Vito Corleone. Cast: Gosha Kutsenko, Mikhail Ulyanov, Sergey Shakurov, Aleksandr Belyavsky, Ivan Bortnik, Evgeny Golubenko, Aleksandr Baluev, Evgeny Sidikhin, Viktor Sukhorukov, Mikhail Efremov, Viktorya Tolstoganova, Vyacheslav Razbegaev. Director Egor Konchalovsky. Director Egor Konchalovsky.